No. 34/1953:

RENT RESTRICTIONS (CONTINUANCE AND AMENDMENT) ACT, 1953

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Continuance of Act of 1946.

2 Lawful addition for certain repairs by landlord.

3 Short title, collective citation and construction.

AN ACT TO CONTINUE IN OPERATION THE RENT RESTRICTIONS ACT, 1946 , AND TO PROVIDE, DURING ITS CONTINUANCE, FOR LAWFUL ADDITIONS ANALOGOUS TO THOSE UNDER SECTION 11, SUBSECTION (2), PARAGRAPH (g), AND UNDER SECTION 17, SUBSECTION (2), PARAGRAPH (e), OF THAT ACT, AS MODIFIED BY THE RENT RESTRICTIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1949 .

[8th December, 1953.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

1.—The Rent Restrictions Act, 1946 (No. 4 of 1946), shall continue in operation until the 31st day of December, 1954.

2.—(1) Where the landlord, during the period comprising the two years 1953 and 1954, 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), and the Rent Restrictions (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1952 (No. 20 of 1952), 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 1953 and 1954" immediately after "1952 and 1953".

3.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Rent Restrictions (Continuance and Amendment) Act, 1953 .

(2) The Rent Restrictions Acts, 1946 to 1952, and this Act may be cited together as the Rent Restrictions Acts, 1946 to 1953.

(3) The Rent Restrictions Acts, 1946 to 1952, and this Act shall be construed together as one Act.