Rent Restrictions Act, 1960

Continuance of pending proceedings.

51.—(1) Where, immediately before the operative date, proceedings stood pending for the determination of the basic rent (within the meaning of the Act of 1946) of any dwelling, the proceedings shall continue and shall be treated as if they were proceedings under subsection (1) or subsection (2) (as may be appropriate) of section 8 of this Act.

(2) (a) Where, immediately before the operative date, an application which was made under section 28 of the Act of 1946 stood not dealt with under section 29 of that Act, the application shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as an application which was made under section 20 of this Act and, if the application was referred pursuant to subsection (2) of section 28 of the Act of 1946 to the appropriate District Justice, it shall be taken for the purposes of this Act as having been referred pursuant to subsection (2) of section 20 of this Act to that Justice.

(b) Where a provisional order which was made on a particular date under section 29 of the Act of 1946 stood in force immediately before the operative date, the order shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as a provisional order which was made on that date under subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 21 of this Act, subject to the modifications that, with respect to the order, the references to one month in subsection (1) of section 23 and paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 24 of this Act shall be construed as references to three months and that in the order—

(i) 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

(ii) 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,

and, if a copy of the order was served pursuant to subsection (1) of section 30 of the Act of 1946 on a particular date before the operative date, a copy thereof shall be taken for the purposes of this Act as having been served pursuant to subsection (1) of section 22 of this Act on that date.

(3) Where, immediately before the operative date, any proceedings, other than proceedings referred to in the foregoing subsections of this section, stood pending under the Act of 1946, the proceedings shall continue and shall be treated as if they were proceedings under the corresponding provisions of this Act.