Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1984 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Ordinance 1984

No. 18 of 1984

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 31 May 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

TOM UREN

Minister of State for Territories and Local Government

An Ordinance to amend the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance 1949

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Ordinance 1984.¹

Rent increases in relation to prescribed premises

2.  Section 62A of the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance 1949² is amended—

(a)    by omitting paragraph (1) (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(b)specifying a date, being a date after the expiration of the period of—

(i)12 months commencing on the date of commencement of the tenancy; or

(ii)60 days commencing on the date on which the notice is given,

whichever is the later; and”;

(b)by omitting from paragraph (1) (c) “,being a time at which a determination does not have effect in respect of those premises,”; and

(c)by omitting from paragraph (10) (c) “6” and substituting “12”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 7 June 1984.

2. No. 6, 1949 as amended by No. 10, 1952; No. 3, 1957; No. 19, 1966; No. 36, 1972; Nos. 18, 33 and 51, 1973; No. 67, 1967; Act No. 74, 1981.