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HOUSING BRANCH QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT

1ST NOV., 1981 TO 31ST JAN., 1982

PART I

Subject

1. Report of the

Committee of Review, Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance.

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Purpose

To consider the recommendations in the Committee's Report and the extent and timing of their adoption.

Progress Made & Present Position

Next Quarter's Target

The Landlord & Tenant (Consolidation) (Amendment) | (a) To consider the (No. 2) Ordinance was enacted in December 1981. Major provisions were -

(a)

extension of rent controls or post war domestic premises until December 1983;

(b) raising the maximum biennial increase in

rent to 30%;

(c) exclusion of premises of a very high.

rateable value, and all premises completed after June 1981 from the Part II rent controls;

(d) provision by way of a new Part IV for

reasonable security of tenure to tenants excluded from the Part I and Part II controls;

(e)

(f)

transfer of jurisdiction in landlord and tenant matters, otherwise than where criminal sanctions are involved, from the District Court and Tenancy Tribunal to the Lands Tribunal;

extension to sub-tenansies of the same system of rent increase control as applies to principal tenancies;

(b)

(c)

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position of corporate tenancies in regard to controls over

rent and security

of tenure;

to monitor the transfer of

jurisdiction under · the Ordinance from the District Court and Tenancy Tribunal to the Lands Tribunal;

to monitor the working of the new Part IV provisions;

(d) to keep the

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legislation and its effects under review.

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