Rent Restrictions (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1955

Lawful addition for certain repairs by landlord.

2.—(1) Where the landlord, during the period comprising the two years 1955 and 1956, expends an amount in excess of two-thirds 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 (No. 24 of 1949), shall be a lawful addition to the basic rent of the premises.

(2) Accordingly, the Rent Restrictions Act, 1946 (No. 4 of 1946), as amended by the Rent Restrictions (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1950 (No. 28 of 1950), the Rent Restrictions (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1952 (No. 20 of 1952), the Rent Restrictions (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1953 (No. 34 of 1953), and the Rent Restrictions (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1954 (No. 34 of 1954), is hereby further 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 1955 and 1956” immediately after “1954 and 1955”.