Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this eprint. See the notes at the end of this eprint for further details.

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Further extension of duration of law relating to restriction of rent [Repealed]
3	Covenant to exclude application to any dwellinghouse of Part 1 of War Legislation Amendment Act 1916, to be void [Repealed]
4	At option of landlord, standard rent for a period of 1 year may be 8 per centum of capital value as on 3 August, 1914. Consequential repeal. [Repealed]
5	Where rent payable on 3 August, 1914, cannot be ascertained, standard rent may be fixed by reference to capital value [Repealed]
6	Obtaining possession of dwellinghouse by misrepresentation
	Reprint notes

An Act to amend Part 1 of the War Legislation Amendment Act 1916 (relating to the restriction of rent), and to continue its operation.

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Rent Restriction Act 1924, and shall be read together with and deemed part of Part 1 of the War Legislation Amendment Act 1916.

2 Further extension of duration of law relating to restriction of rent

[Repealed]

Section 2: repealed, on 29 August 1925, by section 2(2) of the Rent Restriction Continuance Act 1925 (1925 No 9).

3 Covenant to exclude application to any dwellinghouse of Part 1 of War Legislation Amendment Act 1916, to be void

[Repealed]

Section 3: repealed, on 1 August 1927, by section 3(2) of the Rent Restriction Act 1926 (1926 No 36).

4 At option of landlord, standard rent for a period of 1 year may be 8 per centum of capital value as on 3 August, 1914. Consequential repeal.

[Repealed]

, Section 4: repealed, on 1 August 1927, by section 3(2) of the Rent Restriction Act 1926 (1926 No 36).

5 Where rent payable on 3 August, 1914, cannot be ascertained, standard rent may be fixed by reference to capital value

[Repealed]

Section 5: repealed, on 1 August 1927, by section 3(2) of the Rent Restriction Act 1926 (1926 No 36).

6 Obtaining possession of dwellinghouse by misrepresentation

Section 10 of the Housing Amendment Act 1921–22, is hereby amended as follows:

(a)

by inserting, after the words “section 9 hereof” in subsection (1), the words “or who obtains possession of a dwellinghouse by representation that he requires possession on that ground”; and by omitting from the same subsection the words “by means of such order”:

(b)

by omitting from subsection (3) the words “upon the said ground (e),” and substituting the words “upon the ground defined in paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of section 9 hereof, or where possession has been obtained by representation that possession is required on that ground”; and by omitting from the same subsection the words “by means of such order”:

(c)

by omitting from subsection (4) the words “the making of the order for possession,” and substituting the words “possession was obtained.”

Eprint notes

1 General

This is an eprint of the Rent Restriction Act 1924 that incorporates all the amendments to that Act as at the date of the last amendment to it.

2 About this eprint

This eprint is not an official version of the legislation under section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012.

3 Amendments incorporated in this eprint

Statutes Repeal Act 2017 (2017 No 23): section 3(1)

Rent Restriction Act 1924