Advice for tenants
If a policeman arrives at your door without a warrant, he cannot demand entry just to talk to you. But if you invite him in, once inside, he can arrest you for any offence for which an arrest warrant is not required.
This is one of the items of information for tenants in a new 40c booklet, “Tenants and the Law,” which has just been published by the National Youth Council along with the University Students’ Association.
As well as the chapter entitled “Tenants’ Privacy,” there are sections on discrimination (nobody may refuse to let you a house or flat because you have children — the Housing Corporation can prosecute offenders for this), tenancy agreements (if you are married, for example, no matter how young you are, the law treats you as fully responsible for all contracts you enter into). situations when the landlord can increase the rent, and what to do about noisy neighbours.
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Press, 2 December 1978, Page 22
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