Rent Restrictions (Amendment) Act, 1949
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Recovery of excess payments. |
3.—Where— | |
(a) any amount has been paid on account of rent which has accrued due after the date of the passing of this Act, and | ||
(b) such amount includes a sum in respect of a lawful addition under paragraph (g) of subsection (2) of section 11, or paragraph (e) of subsection (2) of section 17, of the Act of 1946, and | ||
(c) such sum is in excess of the lawful addition under the relevant paragraph as modified by section 2 of this Act, | ||
then, notwithstanding that no notice reducing the rent has been served on the landlord, the excess shall be recoverable from the landlord who received it or his legal personal representative by the tenant by whom it was paid or his legal personal representative in the same manner as a sum mentioned in section 24 of the Act of 1946. |