RENT CONTROL
REGISTER OF TENANCIES
That every landlord has to keep a tenancy register,* open td the inspection of every tenant or authorised person, was emphasised by the Minister m Charge of Stabilisation (Mr. Sullivan) today. "This aspect of the rents provision of the Economic Stabilisation Emergency Regulations, 1942, seemed to have been overlooked by some landlords," said the Minister.
"The requirement to keep a register applies to all tenancies," said the Minister. "A register has to be kept for every dwelling house, flat, room, business premises, farm, or other property that is let and the record has to cover all tenancies existing at September, 1, 1942," beginning since then, or coming into existence in the future. "The register, as set out in the regulations, has to show for each tenancy the following particulars: A. description of the premises, the name of the tenant, dates of commencement and termination of each tenancy, the rent payable under the tenancy, and particulars of any alteration in it, the basic rent of the property, and any fair rent fixed for it. "The landlord must allow the register to be inspected by any tenant, of the premises, or by any authorised person, and he must, upon demand, produce every register to the Court or to any rents commission. , Failure to comply with the requirements of the regulations or the making of a false entry in a register is an offence. \ • "Control of rents, which form §! major item in the cost of living, is ail, essential part of the Government's' stabilisation programme," saidithe Minister. "Together with wages "and in?; terest and other charges, rents figure; very largely in the cost of most of the, things people buy. So all these things, including rents, have been stabilised. The provision in the regulations for the keeping of these registers of tenancies is a means of making sure that the law in this matter is obeyed, of seeing that there is no unauthorised increase in the rent of any property, and of assisting tenants to know their rikhts." ■;.■;■'' ■■■'■■;' ■' ■ ■
RENT CONTROL
Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1943, Page 6
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