RENT RESTRICTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 212, 26 November 1927, Page 11

RENT RESTRICTION

COUNCIL PASSES BILL SOME AMENDMENTS MADE (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The Rent Restriction Bill, which was iejec;ed by the legislative Council on July 29, and reintroduced by the Government in that chamber on November 17, was passed to-day with ■everal amendments rdcomrhended by the Government. - In moving the committal of the Bill th<> Leader of the Council, Sir Francis Bell, said the proposed amendments provided that' tho amendments made by the Rent ‘ Restriction Act, 1926, would not como into force until February 1, 1928, it having been decided to allow .the present conditions to remain undisturbed over Christmas and the New Year. After February 1, and until January 1, 1929, the tenant must apply for the continuance to him of the restriction which fixed the rent of dwelling house at 7 per cent, of toe present capital value, plus rates, repairs and insurance. That amount been represented to the Labour Bills Committee as being short of vfoac was properly exactable by about 1 per cent. Another amendment further provided that every order made by a jjtogistrate after August 1, 1927, and tefore the passing of the Bill, fixing toe standard rent of any dwelling, should stand, .ujid that no action should be taken against a landlord tor the recovery, of any rent charged to excess of the standard during that Period, unless an order under the Rent Act, 19*26, was in., force, fha amendment, in effect, protected •everything done between August 1 and toe present time. further amendment provided that here a landlord had entered into a hiding contract for the sale of the of a dwelling house he was nut.ed without notice of determinu--0 0. the tenancy to apply to a toagistrate for an order for possesI, and. if the magistrate was satis--h that the contract effected a genue sale, the landlord was entitled to * * or <ler at such date as the magisdeemed just. a Bill was reported with the recommended, read a u time and passed.