FAIR RENTS ACTS
SERVICES BY LANDLORD ANOMALY REMOVED (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Friday The extension of the operation of the Fair Rents Act to September 30, 1941, is provided for in the Statutes Amendment Bill, which was introduced in the House of Representatives today. The Act was to have expired next month. The Bill enlarges slightly the type of premises to which the Act applies. The legislation has hitherto excluded tenancies where any services have been performed by the landlord, but it has been found in practice that this excluded many tenancies to which the Act was really intended to apply, because even the most trivial service was held to prevent the operation of the Act. The clause corrects this anomaly. The Bill was read a second time pro forma and referred to the Statutes Revision Committet-
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21200, 24 August 1940, Page 9
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