RENT RESTRICTION
SCHEME IN AUSTRALIA TENANTS WITH CHILDREN CANBEHRA, Nov. 20 No dwelling house in New South Wales letting at less than £4 4s a week can now be let at a rent greater than that which was paid on August 31, 1939. Regulations gazetted provide that where the rent has been increased since the war it must be immediately reduced to the pre-war figure. The regulations empower the tenant to call on the landlord to supply a statutory declaration of the rent on August 31, 1939. No landlord may refuse to let the house because the prospective tenant has a child. It will be an offence to inquire whether a prospective tenant has a child or whether it is intended that a child shall live in the dwelling. The regulations will be applied immediately to New South Wales at the request of the State Government. The Federal Government hopes that the new regulations will soon operate throughout Australia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24136, 1 December 1941, Page 8
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