RENT INCREASE BILL
THIRD READING PASSED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 8. The Rent Increase Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons by 286 votes to 169. —A. and N.Z. Cable. Sir Douglas M. Hogg (Attorney-gen-eral), in introducing the Bill, explained that it legalises the rent increase notice as from December. Landlords could not recover arrears not collected before December, but arrears kept back since December would’ bo recoverable. He admitted that retrospective legislation was bad, hut the public bad been warned in December of the Government's intention to legislate. The Government wished to do a fair thing in difficult circum stances. A number of .Labourites, particularly the Glasgow contingent, indig nantly demanded the rejection of the Bill, on the ground that it altered a judicial decision, and they threatened that such legislation would give a Labmi* Government a precedent for retrospective legislation connected with land.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18859, 11 May 1923, Page 8
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