BONUS FOR HOUSE-LETTING
A TIMELY WARNING. During the hearing of a tenement case in the Magistrate's Court recently it was stated that an agent asked for a bonus of £2O in letting a house. Mr. R. T. Bailey, inspector under the Housing Act, directs attention to section 19 of the Housing Act, which provides:— "(1) Every person to whom section 4 of the War Legislation Amendment Act, 1916, applies who requires or accepts any fine, premium, on other sum referred to in that, section in addition to the rent of any dwelling-house commits an offence, and is liable on summary conviction to a. fine of one hundred pounds. "(2) Every person, not being a person to whom section 4 of the AVar Legislation Amendment Act, •.916, applies, commiib an offence, anti is liable on summary conviction to a fine of one hundred pounds, who stipulates for or demands or accepts any bonus, fine, premium, or other like sum in consideration for obtaining or offering to obtain or doing anything for the purpose of obtaining any dwelling-house or part of a dwellinghouse for the occupation of any ot’her person." It is the intention oi the Department strictly to enforce tho provisions of this section.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 122, 16 February 1921, Page 7
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203BONUS FOR HOUSE-LETTING Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 122, 16 February 1921, Page 7
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