Landlord and Tenant Act 1957 (ACT)

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No. 3 of 1957.

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance

1949-1952.

I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Common-	Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under
,	wealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal

the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910-1955.

Dated this twenty-second day of February, 1957.

W. J. SLIM
Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

ALLEN FAIRHALL

Minister of State for the Interior.

LANDLORD AND TENANT ORDINANCE 1957.

1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Landlord and short title

Tenant Ordinance 1957.*

(2.) The Landlord and Tenant Ordinance 1949-1952f is in

this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordin- ance, may be cited as the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance 1949-1957.

4551/56*.—PRICE 3D.

{b) by inserting after paragraph (a) of the definition o: •

2. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day Commence-

of May, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven.

3.   Section eight of the Principal Ordinance is amended— interpretation.

(a) by inserting in sub-section (1.), after the definition

of " authorized officer", the following defini- " ' business premises ' means premises used solely or primarily for the purposes of a trade, business or profession, including shops, factories, workshops, storerooms, offices and professional rooms;"; and tion:—

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 21st March, 1957.
t Ordinance No. 6, 1949, as amended by No, 10, 1952.

" prescribed premises " in that sub-section the

following paragraph:—

" (aa) business premises;".

Defiintions. 4. Section eighty-eight A of the Principal Ordinance i amended by inserting before paragraph (a) of the definition o: " premises " the following paragraph:—

" (aa) business premises, as defined in sub-section (1.)

of section eight of this Ordinance;".

Existing

determinations	5. A determination under Part II. of the Principal Ordinance
of fair rent of	in relation to premises that are business premises, as defined in
business
premises.	the Principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance, does not affect, and shall not be deemed to have affected, rent payable in respect of a period after the commencement of this Ordinance.
Pending
proceedings for	6. Notwithstanding the amendments made by this Ordinance,
ejection from	where, before the commencement of this Ordinance, a notice to
business
premises.	quit has been given to a lessee or proceedings for the recovery of possession of premises or for the ejectment of the lessee of premises have been commenced, proceedings arising out of that notice to quit may be taken and dealt with, or the proceedings commenced may be continued and completed, and any order made in proceedings referred to in this section may be enforced, as if this Ordinance had not been made.

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By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.