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AN BILLE SRIANTA CIOSA (LEASU), 1966 RENT RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL, 1966 Mar a leasaiodh i gCoiste As amended in Committee ARRANGEMENT OP SECTIONS Section 1.

Interpretation.

2.

Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act.

3.

Amendment of section 7 of Principal Act.

4.

Amendment of section 8 of Principal Act.

5.

Amendment of section 9 of Principal Act.

6.

Amendment of section 10 of Principal Act.

7.

Amendment of section 13 of Principal Act.

8.

Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act.

9.


Amendment of section 29 (1) (j) of Principal Act.

10.

Restriction on assignment.

11.

Liability for repairs (weekly or monthly letting).

12.

Provisions relevant to provisional orders under Part III of Principal Act.

13.

Application of Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931, to certain dwellings.

14.

Repeals.

15.

Short title and collective citation.

SCHEDULE Portions of the Principal.

Act which are Repealed (No.


15a of 1966J AN BILLE SRIANTA CIOSA (LEASU), 1966 RENT RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL, 1966 BILL entitled AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE RENT RESTRIC- 5 TIONS ACT, 1960.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS Interpretation.

1960, No.

42.

1.—(1) In this Act “ the Principal Act ” means the Rent Restrictions Act, 1960.

(2) The Principal Act and this Act shall be construed together 10 as one Act.

Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act.
2.—(1) Section 3 (2) (o) and section 3 (4) of the Principal Act are each hereby amended by the insertion after “ sixty pounds ” of “ (if the dwelling is neither a house nor a separate and self- contained flat) or forty pounds (if the dwelling is a house) or 15 thirty pounds (if the dwelling is a separate and self-contained flat)” and by the insertion after “ forty pounds ” of “ (if the dwelling is neither a house nor a separate and self-contained flat) or thirty pounds '(if the dwelling is a house) or twenty pounds (if the dwell­ ing is a separate and self-contained flat)”.
20 (2) Section 3 (2) (/) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of “ , save in a case in which there is a coming into possession by the landlord on or after the 8th day of June, 1966, ” before “the rateable valuation ”.
(3) Section 3 (2) (g) of the Principal Act is hereby amended ‘J5 by the addition at the end of the paragraph of “or which is a separate and self-contained flat (not being a flat forming part of any such buildings) of which the landlord is on the 8th day of June, 1966, in possession or thereafter comes into possession ”.
(4) Section 3 (2) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the {() addition of the following paragraph: “ (i) a dwelling which is a house or a separate and self- contained flat, being a house or flat of which, after the passing of the Rent Restrictions (Amendment) Act, 1967, a person, being a bachelor or spinster and 35 being over the age of 21 years and under the age of 65 years, has become the tenant.” Amendment of section 7 of Principal Act.
3.—'(1) Section 7 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of the following subsections before subsection (3) : “ (1A) This section applies to a controlled dwelling in K) respect of which evidence is forthcoming of both of the following facts: 2 (a) that it was on the 8th day of June, 1966 (in this section referred to as the relevant date) held by an occupying tenant thereof under a contract of tenancy not being for more than a term of five years or under a statutory tenancy, and 5 (b) the rent at which it was so held.
(IB) The basic rent of a controlled dwelling to which this section applies shall be the net rent at which it was held on the relevant date.” 10 (2) Section 7 (3) (a) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after “ (as the case may be) ” of “ appropriate by reference to the rates for the local financial year ending on the 31st day of March, 1966 ”.
4.—(1) Section 8 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by Amendment of 15 the insertion of the following subsection before subsection (2) : section 8 of Principal Act.
20 25 30 35 40 45 50 ^5 fJO “ (1A) (a) If, on an application to the Court under this sub­ section by the landlord of a controlled dwelling, the Court is satisfied that the dwelling is a dwelling to which this subsection applies and that the basic rent of the dwelling is less than the rent (in this subsection referred to as the notional rent) which, if the dwelling were a dwelling to which section 9 of this Act applies, would be determined by the Court as the basic rent thereof, the basic rent shall be determined by the Court and shall be the amount which, in the opinion of the Court, represents the notional rent, and thenceforth the dwelling shall, without prejudice to the previous application thereto of paragraph (a) of section 16 of this Act, become a dwelling to which section 9 of this Act applies as if such determination had been made under that section.
(6) In determining pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection the notional rent of a dwelling, the following paragraph shall be regarded as being substituted for paragraph (b) of section 9 (1A) of this Act : ‘ (b) (i) The said rent shall be a rent of such amount as the Court considers reasonable having regard to all the circumstances of the case, but, in particular, to the neces­ sity of avoiding financial hardship to the tenant and the landlord, and subject to the overriding restriction that it shall not exceed the difference between the gross rent and the allowance for improvements as hereinafter respectively defined.
(ii) The gross rent shall be the rent which in the opinion of the Court a willing tenant not already in occupation would give and a willing landlord would take for the dwelling, in each case on the basis of vacant possession being given, and in such circumstances that the supply of similar dwellings is sufficient to meet the demand and the competition therefor is normal and having regard to the other terms of the tenancy and to the letting values of dwellings of a similar character to and situate in the vicinity of the dwelling, but without regal’d to any good- 3 will which may exist in respect of the dwelling.
(iii) The allowance in respect of improvements shall be such proportion of the gross rent as is, in the opinion of the Court, attributable to improvements made by the tenant or his predecessors in title (whether before or after the commence­ ment of this Act or of the Rent Restric­ tions (Amendment) Act, 1967) which, at the time of the application under this subsection, add to the letting value and are suitable to the character of the dwelling.
(iv) In the foregoing sub-paragraph— “ improvements ” means any additions or alterations to the buildings comprised in the dwelling and includes any structures erected on the site of the dwelling or land together with which the dwelling is let which are ancillary or subsidiary to the said buildings and also includes the instal­ lation in the dwelling of conduits for the supply of water, gas or electricity, but does not include work consisting only of repairing, painting and decorating, or any of them, “ predecessors in title ” means and includes all previous tenants of the dwelling under the same tenancy as the tenant or any tenancy of which such tenancy is or is deemed to be a continua­ tion or renewal.
* (c) Where, in the case of a dwelling to which this subsection applies and in respect of which an application to the Court under this subsection has not been made, the landlord, having agreed with the tenant upon a rent to stand determined as the basic rent of the dwelling, serves a notice of that rent on the tenant, thenceforth— (i) that rent shall stand determined as the basic rent of the dwelling and the dwell­ ing shall, without prejudice to the previous application thereto of para­ graph (a) of section 16 of this Act, become a dwelling to wrhich section 9 of this Act applies as if such determina­ tion had been made under that section, (ii) no application to the Court under this subsection may be made, and (iii) in any application of paragraph (b) of section 16 of this Act to the dwelling, a reference to the date of the service of the notice shall be substituted for the date of the institution of proceedings.
(d) In this subsection “ dwelling to which this subsec­ tion applies ” means a controlled dwelling (being a house or a separate and self-contained flat)— (i) to which section 7 of this Act applies, and (ii) in the case of which the landlord at the time of the application or of the service 4 of the notice under this subsection was the landlord on the 8th day of June, 1966, and has been the landlord con­ tinuously from that day, except that the expression shall be construed as not including a controlled dwelling such as aforesaid unless the landlord shows that either— (I) he was not on the 8th day of June, 1966, the landlord of any other controlled dwelling (being a house or a separate and self-contained flat) to which section 7 of this Act applies, or (II) the total number of the controlled dwellings (being houses or separate and self-contained flats, or houses or a house and such flats or such a flat) to which section 7 of this Act applies of which he was the landlord on the 8th day of June, 1966, is not more than six and the total of their rateable valuations does not exceed (in case one at least of them is in the county borough of Dublin or the borough of Dun Laoghaire) sixty pounds or (in any other case) forty pounds.
(e) The Court may, if it so thinks proper, deal privately with the whole or any part of an application under this subsection.

(f) Every application under this subsection shall, not­ withstanding section 50 of this Act, be made to the District Court, and the landlord shall be liable for the tenant’s costs in that Court unless that Court, in all the circumstances and having regard, in particular, to the means of the tenant, considers it proper to order otherwise.
(g) Every notice served under this section shall be in the prescribed form, or a form substantially to the same effect, and shall contain the relevant particulars indicated by the form.
(h) If a notice served under this section contains any statement or representation which is false or misleading in any material respect, the person making or causing to be made such statement or representation shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on summary conviction thereof, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds unless he proves that the statement or representation was made innocently and without intent to deceive.” (2) Section 8 (2) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a): “ (aa) In determining pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection the notional rent of a dwelling, the Court shall have regard to any amount expended on the improvement, structural alteration or repair of the dwelling which is an amount by reference to which a lawful addition within the meaning of the Act of 1946 has been obtained or by reference to which a lawful addition within the meaning of this Act has been obtained before the passing of the Rent Restrictions (Amendment) Act, 1967.” 5.—Section 9 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1): Amendment of section 9 of Principal Aot.
5 “ (1A) (a) The basic rent of a controlled dwelling to which this section applies shall be determined by the Court.

(b) The said rent shall be a rent of such amount as the Court considers reasonable having regard as far as possible to the rents of dwellings which 5 are comparable in regard to location, accom­ modation, amenities, state of repair and rateable valuation.
(c) In the foregoing paragraph ‘ rents in relation to controlled dwellings, refers to basic rents.” 10 Amendment of section 10 of Principal Act.

6.—(1) Each of the references to the operative date contained in section 10 (1) of the Principal Act shall be construed as a reference to the 8th day of June, 1966.
(2) Section 10 (2) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following paragraphs : 15 “ (/) in case the landlord— (i) during the period of three years ending on the 8th day of June, 1966, expended a sum exceeding one-third of the basic rent, or (ii) during the period of six years ending on that 20 date, expended a sum exceeding two-thirds of that rent, on maintenance of the dwelling (including painting and the keeping in repair and proper working order of the installations for the supply of water, gas and electricity 25 and for sanitation), a sum (subject to a minimum of two shillings and sixpence per week or its equivalent) equal to fifteen per cent, of the basic rent; (g) in case the landlord, during the year 1966 or any subse­ quent year, expends an amount exceeding one-fifth of 30 the basic rent on putting the dwelling into a reasonable state of repair or on its maintenance (including painting and the keeping in repair and proper working order of the installations for the supply of water, gas and electricity and for sanitation), a sum equal to ten per 35 cent, of the excess.” (3) Section 10 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection '(4): “ (4A) Where— (а) a house consists of two or more controlled dwellings and 40 the landlord of the dwellings expends an amount in excess of one-fifth of the aggregate of the basic rents of the dwellings on putting the house into a reasonable state of repair or on its maintenance (including painting and the keeping in repair and proper working order of 45 the installations for the supply of water, gas and electricity and for sanitation), and (б) all the controlled dwellings benefit directly or indirectly from the repairs or maintenance, the following provisions shall have effect for the purposes of 50 subsection (2) of this section : (i) a calculation shall be made in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (g) of that subsection of the sum which would be the lawful addition if the house were a dwelling having a basic rent equal to 55 the aggregate of the basic rents of the dwellings, 6 5 10 (ii) that sum shall be apportioned among the dwellings in proportion to their respective rateable valua­ tions, (iii) the said paragraph (g) shall be taken as having provided, as respects each dwelling, for the sum apportioned to it on the apportionment (and no other sum) being a lawful addition to its basic rent.
(4B) Where— (a) apart from this subsection, paragraph (/) of subsection (2) of this section would not apply in respect of a controlled dwelling which is not the sole controlled dwelling of which its landlord is landlord, and (b) taking all the controlled dwellings of which he is land- 15 lord— 20 (i) during the period of three years ending on the 8th day of June, 1966, he has expended a sum exceed­ ing one-third of the aggregate of the basic rents, or (ii) during the period of six years ending on that date, he has expended a sum exceeding two-thirds of that aggregate, on maintenance such as is referred to in the paragraph of all or any of the dwellings, 25 the paragraph shall apply in respect of the controlled dwelling.
’ * (4) In a case in which there has been an expenditure in the year 1966 such as is referred to in section 10 (2) (g) of the Principal Act, there shall be no lawful addition to the basic rent by reference to the amount expended if an addition by reference 30 to that amount has been obtained by virtue of section 10 (2) («) of the Principal Act.

(5) Section 21 (1) (e) (ii) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of “or on maintenance ” after “ repairs ”.
7.—Section 13 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the 35 insertion of the following subsection after subsection (5): Amendment of section 13 of Principal Act.
“ (5A) At any time after the expiry of a notice under para­ graph (6) of subsection (1) or under subsection (2) of this section increasing the rent of any controlled dwelling by an amount consisting of or including any sum in respect of the 40 matters mentioned in paragraph (c), (d) or (g) of subsection (2) of section 10 of this Act— («) the Court may, on the application of the tenant, if satisfied either— 45 50 55 (i) that the expenditure (in so far as it is applicable to any of the said matters) in respect of which the notice was served was not incurred or was unneces­ sary in whole or in part, (ii) that the improvements, structural alterations, repairs or maintenance have not been carried out satisfactorily, (iii) that, in a case in which the tenant claims that the expenditure (in so far as it is applicable to any of the said matters) in respect of which the notice was served was unnecessary in whole or in part, the tenant has been prejudiced in establishing this by his not having been made aware in sufficient time of the nature of the works proposed, 7 (iv) that, at the time of the application, the dwelling is not in good and tenantable repair, or (v) that, in a case in which the acquisition by the land­ lord of the dwelling was before the 1st day of January, 1970, the amount consists of or includes 5 any sum expended in the year 1970 or any subse­ quent year in respect of repairs rendered necessary by breach of an obligation imposed on the landlord by contract or statute and the landlord has not, during the three years immediately pre- 10 ceding the year of such expenditure, expended a reasonable sum on the maintenance of the dwelling, disallow or reduce the increase accordingly, as from such date (whether before the date of the application or otherwise) as the Court thinks fit, and lb (b) the Court may, on the application of the tenant, if satisfied that the landlord did not apply for a grant under the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Pro­ visions) Acts, 1932 to 1962, or the Housing Act, 1966, in respect of the improvements, structural alterations 20 or repairs but that it is reasonable to assume that an application therefor would have been granted, reduce the increase by an amount not exceeding twenty-five per cent, of the basic rent, as from such date (whether before the date of the application or otherwise) as the 25 Court thinks fit.” 1966, No.
21.

Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act.

8.—(1) Section 15 (2) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of ” thirty-three and one-third per cent.” for “ twenty per cent.”.

(2) Section 15 (4) (6) of the Principal Act is hereby amended 30 by the substitution of ” sixty-six and two-thirds per cent.” for ” eighty per cent.” Amendment of section 29 (1) (j) of Principal Act.
9.—Section 29 (1) (j) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of ”, for the purpose of enabling the tenant, without incurring hardship, to secure appropriate alternative accommoda- 35 tion,” after ” such sum ”.

Restriction on assignment.

10.—(1) This section applies to a controlled dwelling other than a dwelling lawfully used in part for the purposes of any business, trade or profession.
(2) (a) The tenant of a controlled dwelling to which this section ^ applies shall not assign the tenancy without the consent in writing of the landlord unless the contract of tenancy is in writing and contains a provision authorising assignment without the consent of the landlord.
(6) Consent for the purposes of this subsection may be with- 45 held only if the assignment is otherwise than to a member of the tenant’s family who is bona fide residing with him at the time of the assignment (3) An assignment in contravention of subsection (5) of this section shall be void.

50 (4) Paragraphs (o) to (d) of section 31 (5) of the Principal Act shall apply in construing the word ” family ” for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section.

5 1931, No.

55.
5 1931, No.

55.

(5) Section 56 of the Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931, shall not apply to a lease of a controlled dwelling to which this section 55 applies.

8 (6) Section 32 (4) (6) of the Principal Act shall not apply to a statutory tenancy of a controlled dwelling to which this section applies.
11.—(1) This section applies to a weekly or monthly letting Liability for 5 of a controlled dwelling, being a dwelling in the case of which there ^monthly* y hafc'been a lawful addition by reference to section 10 (2) (b) of the letting).

Principal Act, other than any such letting in the contract for which there is, in accordance with section 114 of the Housing Act, 1966, No.

21.

1966, to be implied the condition and undertaking referred to in 10 that section.
(2) Subject to the subsequent provisions of this section, there shall, in the case of a letting to which this section applies, be implied a covenant by the landlord— (а) to keep in repair the structure (including flooring) of the L5 dwelling, and (б) to keep in repair (including keep painted) the exterior (including drains, gutters and external pipes, window frames and exterior doors) of the dwelling, and 20 (c) to keep in repair and proper working order the installa- the supply of water and tions in the dwelling for gas, and for basins, sinks, sanitation (including baths and sanitary conveniences but not, except as aforesaid, fixtures, fittings and appliances for making use of the supply of water or gas), and 25 (d) where the dwelling is a room or flat, to keep the ceiling in repair.
(3) Where the tenant has covenanted in writing to carry out any or all of the repairs mentioned in subsection {2) of this section, the landlord shall not be liable for those repairs.
30 (4) The covenant implied by this section (hereinafter referred to as the landlord’s repairing covenant) shall not be construed as requiring the landlord— 35 (a) to carry out any works or repairs for which the tenant is liable'by virtue Off his duty to use the dwelling in a tenant-like manner, or would be so liable apart from any express covenant on his part, (b) to rebuild or reinstate the dwelling in the case, of destruc­ tion or damage by fire, or by tempest, flood, or other inevitable accident, or 40 (c) to keep in repair or maintain anything which the tenant is entitled to remove from the building.
(5) In determining the standard of repair required by the land­ lord’s repairing covenant, regard shall be had to the age, condi­ tion, character, situation and prospective life of the dwelling.
45 (6) In any letting in which the landlord’s repairing covenant Ls implied, there shall also be implied a covenant by the tenant that the landlord, or any person authorised by him in writing, may at reasonable times of the day, on giving twenty-four hours’ notice in writing to the occupier, enter the dwelling for the purpose of 50 viewing its condition and state of repair, and shall be afforded by the tenant all reasonable facilities for C'xecUtihg any repairs which the landlord is entitled to execute.5 7 (7) Any covenant in writing by the landlord or the tenant to carry nut repairs other' than those mentioned in subsection (2) of 55 this section shall not be affected.
9 1860, c. 154.

(8) So much of section 42 of the Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment Act, Ireland, 1860, as implies agreements with respect to good and substantial repair and condition of premises shall not apply to a letting to which this section applies.

(9) Neither paragraph (a) nor paragraph (c) of section 32 (4) 5 of the Principal Act shall apply where the letting of the dwelling is a letting to which this section applies.

Provisions relevant to provisional orders under Part III of Principal Act.
12.—'(1) Where an order under section 21 of the Principal Act stood in force immediately before the passing of this Act, it shall have effect as from such passing modifications: subject to the following 10 (a) for the amount specified therein as the basic rent of the dwelling in question there shall be substituted an amount equal to the lawful rent so specified less any amount so specified in respect of rates, and 15 (b) for the amount so specified in respect of lawful additions there shall be substituted an amount equal to any amount so specified in respect of rates.
(2) Where an application is made by a landlord under section 8 (1A) of the Principal Act in relation to a dwelling in the case 20 of which an application previously made under section 20 of the Principal Act remains not determined, the latter application shall be regarded as terminated.
(3) Where, during the month referred to in section 23 (1) of the Principal Act, an application is made by the landlord under 25 section 8 (1A) of that Act in relation to the dwelling— (a) the order made on the application shall operate to revoke the order under section 21 of the Principal Act, and (b) thereupon the provision as to the rent to be paid con­ tained in section 22 (2) of the Principal Act shall not 30 apply to the dwelling.
(4) The applications under section 8 (1A) of the Principal Act mentioned in subsections (2) and (3) of this section may be made notwithstanding subsection (3) of section 22 of this Act.

Application of Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931, to certain dwellings.
13.—<(1) This section applies to a dwelling which is a house or 35 a separate and self-contained flat, being a house or flat— (a) which immediately before the passing of this Act was a controlled dwelling subject to a letting which was not— (i) (i) a letting made and expressed to be made for the temporary convenience of the landlord or of the 40 tenant and (if made after the 22nd day of December, 1931) stating the nature of such tem­ porary convenience, or (ii) a letting made for or dependent on the continuance of the tenant in any office, employment or appoint- 45 ment, and (b) the rateable valuation of which— (i) in case it is situate in the county borough of Dublin or the borough of Dun Laoghaire, exceeds forty pounds (if it is a house) or thirty pounds (if it is 50 a separate and self-contained flat); (ii) in any other case, exceeds thirty pounds (if it is a house) and twenty pounds (if it is a separate and self-contained flat).
10 (2) This section also applies to a dwelling which is a house or a separate and self-contained flat, being a house or flat of which, after the passing of this Act, a person, being a bachelor or spinster and being over the age of 21 years and under the age 5 of 65 years, has become the tenant.

(3) The Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931, shall apply to all 1931, No.
55. dwellings to which this section applies and for that purpose— 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 (i) “ tenement ” in that Act shall include all such dwellings, (ii) section 19 (1) of that Act (as amended by section 54 of the Principal Act) shall have effect as if the following word and paragraph were added thereto : “ or (/) such tenement is a dwelling referred to in section 13 (1) or 13 (2) of the Rent Restric­ tions (Amendment) Act, 1967.”, (iii) in any application of section 24 (2) (a) of that Act to any such dwelling, the reference therein to one month shall be construed as a reference to six months, (iv) where any such dwelling, being a dwelling referred to in subsection (1) of this section, was, immedi­ ately before the passing of this Act, held under a statutory tenancy, the tenant under that tenancy shall, as from such passing, be deemed to hold the dwelling from the landlord under a tenancy having the same terms and conditions as the statutory tenancy except that the landlord may, by not less than three months’ notice expiring on any gale day served on the tenant, determine the tenancy, (v) where any such dwelling, being a dwelling referred to in subsection (2) of this section, was, immedi­ ately before the time when the person referred to in that subsection became the tenant, held under a statutory tenancy, that person shall, as from that time, be deemed to hold the dwelling from the landlord under a tenancy having the same terms and conditions as the statutory tenancy except that the landlord may, by not less than three months’ notice expiring on any gale day served on the tenant, determine the tenancy, (vi) any notice under either of the foregoing para­ graphs shall, for the purposes of section 24 (2) (a) of that Act, be deemed to be a notice to quit, (vii) in any application of section 23 of that Act to any such dwelling, that section shall have effect as if ** whichever of the following is the greater, that is to say, such sum, for the purpose of enabling the tenant, without incurring hardship, to
 secure appropriate alternative accommodation, as the Court considers proper, being not less than three years’ rent (including rates, whether or not pay­ able by the tenant) or ” were inserted after “ the measure of such compensation shall be ”, (viii) in any application of section 29 of that Act to any such dwelling— (I) in case the occasion is the first occasion on which the terms of a new tenancy for the dwelling are fixed under that section and the Court is satisfied that payment of the rent which, apart from this provision, would be 11 fixed would cause hardship to the tenant, the Court shall fix the rent payable by the tenant under the new tenancy at a sum (not below the existing rent) which it is satisfied that, having regard to all the circumstances of the 5 case, the tenant should be required to pay and paragraph (c) of that section shall have effect as if * ‘ exceed a term of ten years * * were substituted for “, without the consent of the tenant, be less than a term of twenty-one 10 years and shall not in any case exceed a term of ninety-nine years ”, (II) in any other case, paragraph (<j) of that section shall have effect as if “ (whether before or after the passing of this Act or of the Rent 15 Restrictions '(Amendment) Act, 1967) which, at the time of the application to the Court, add to the letting value and are suitable to the character of the tenement ” were sub­ stituted for “ and in respect of which the 20 tenant would have been entitled to compensa­ tion for improvements if (as the case may be) Part III of this Act did not apply to such tenement or such new tenancy had not been created ”.
25 Repeals.

14.—The portions of the Principal Act which are specified in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed.

Short title and oolleotive citation.

15.—‘(1) This Act may be cited as the Rent Restrictions (Amend­ ment) Act, 1967.

(2) The Principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the 30 Rent Restrictions Acts, 1960 and 1967.

Section 14.

Portions of the Principal Act which are repealed SCHEDULE Subsections (1) and (2) of section 7.
The words “ not being a dwelling referred to in paragraph (a) 35 of subsection (2) of that section,” in paragraph (a) of section 8 (1).

Paragraph (b) of section 8 (1).

The words “ not being a dwelling referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of that section,,” in paragraph (a) of section 8 (2).

Paragrapn (6) of section 8 (2).

40 Subsection (3) of section 8.

Subsection (2) of section 9.

Paragraphs (b) and (e) of section 10 (2).

Subsections (3), (5), (6) and (7) of section 10.


The words “any tenant of which has availed himself of this 45 Act or of any of the former enactments relating to restriction of 12 rent to obtain a reduction of the rent of the dwelling ” in sub- paragraph (ii) of section 13 (4) (a).

Subsection (6) of section 13.

The words “ to which Chapter I of Part II of the Act of 1946 5 applied ” in subsection (1) of section 15.
The words “ if 1 (being dwellings to which Chapter I of Part II of the Act of 1946 applied) ’ were contained in subsection (2) of the said section 9 after ‘ controlled dwellings ” in clause (I) of section 21 (1) (c) (i).

10 The words “ paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 10 and ” in section 39.
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