AMENDED LEGISLATION

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1927, Page 10

AMENDED LEGISLATION

OPERATION AFTER MONDAY

■A.t the present time it appears that '$k» Bent Restriction Continuance Bill, passed by the House of Representatives 'aid rejected by tho Legislative Council yesterday, will not be brought forward ?gam. The rejection of tho Bill will not terminate entirely the protection afforded tenants by the war legislation Vhich has been extended from time to time. Legislation in an amended form •will operate after Monday next. The object of the rejected Bill was simply tr> extend the Act as it has been in force in the past a further twelve months.

. -".The position under the existing law that the standard rent of any ■ dwelling was fixed at 7 per cent, net (for interest) of the 1914 value. Tho landlord could obtain an order for the eviction of the tenant only if he desired the house for his own use The protection -thus afforded tenants was to be withdrawn on Ist August, 192b", but list session Parliament granted an extension of time until Ist August this year, and the present Bill was intended to continue it. again until August, 1928 ■A- number of amendments were made :tt>,,the-Act last year, and these, now the Legislative Council has rejected .the Eent Restriction Continuance -Bill, come- into force from next Mon*ctey.

. •■ After Monday it is provided that tho Act will not apply to any house unless or until a tenant makes application to a Magistrate to have it reapplicd to His dwelling, and until a Magistrate makes an order accordingly. The Mac artrate will base his decision on the relative hardship of the tenant and of fhe landlord. Tho basis of the standand rent will be 7 per cent, of the present value instead of 7 per cent, of the 1914 value, tho 7 per cent, being tho interest at that rate on thccapital value. Jn addition the tenant will bo required to pay an allowance for the rates, fire insurance depreciation, and maintenance, as determined by the Magistrate Application to .have his dwelling fcrougat within tho scope of the Act May be made either by the tenant personalty through the Clerk of the Court ot- he may invoke the assistance of the inspector of factories for his distr "t £ho is authorised by the Act to give to tenants and to make ap - plications to Courts on their behalf ■i«i?i a^! y CaSe U is incumbent on' a ™n V t0 ? V° a tenant at ]easfc ono months notice, or such other notice ao may have been agreed upon before Gom-t for an order to evict'the tenant -Phis u 'Provided by the Property Law Act. Should a Magistrate accede to in by a tenant o have house brought under the Act, it will he open to the landlord to appy to have the new standard rent fixed A tenant Act., will entirely cease to opento f the end of this year TJn <-n l, n f a»t, may make i^iJtL^to haY °it fpplied, but it is permissible for tho .Mag ls trates to make their decisions « trospechve to not earlier than Ist l ug