AMENDMENT TO ACT
UNDER CONSIDERATION
When next Parliament meets one of the matters to which attention will be .given will be the fair rents legislation. The Act expires pn October 31. No doubt a Bill will be introduced tQ extend the period of operation of the Act; Apart from this, there is the "possibility of. some alteration to the provisions of the existing legislation. This has been mentioned by the Attor-ney-General (bMr. Mason). bMr. Mason has' intimated that the • question of amending the Act is under consideration. He said that when the Act was first designed new buildings * were exempted so that there might - not be interference with, building. The difficulty of building new dwellings during the war was one among the circumstances that had since arisen which called for a new approach to the problem and it was being reconsidered accordingly.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 3
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142AMENDMENT TO ACT Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 3
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