Rent Restrictions (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1959

Lawful addition for certain repairs by landlord.

2.—(1) Where the landlord, during the period comprising the two years 1959 and 1960, expends an amount in excess of twothirds of the basic rent of controlled premises on putting the premises into a reasonable state of repair, a sum calculated in accordance with the scale set out in the Schedule to the Rent Restrictions (Amendment) Act, 1949 , shall be a lawful addition to the basic rent of the premises.

(2) Accordingly, the Rent Restrictions Act, 1946 , is hereby amended by the insertion, in paragraph (g) of subsection (2) of section 11 and in paragraph (e) of subsection (2) of section 17, of “or 1959 and 1960” immediately after “1958 and 1959” (inserted therein by the Rent Restrictions (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1958 ).