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Tenancy Amendment Act 1958

Public Act		1958 No 95
Date of assent		2 October 1958

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Interpretation

An Act to amend the Tenancy Act 1955

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Tenancy Amendment Act 1958, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Tenancy Act 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Interpretation

(1)

Subsection one of section two of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to the definition of the term “outgoings” the words “and includes land tax to the extent that the owner of the premises would be liable for land tax if he owned no other land”.

(2)

Subsection one of section two of the principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing the definition of the term “tenancy”, and substituting the following definition:

“‘Tenancy’ includes a subtenancy; and, in relation to any dwellinghouse, also includes any agreement or arrangement whether oral or in writing under which, for valuable consideration in money or money’s worth, any person is given the right to occupy for residential purposes any building or part of a building, whether or not the agreement or arrangement is expressed in the form of a licence or a grant of leave and licence for the use or occupation thereof; and ‘to let’, ‘letting’, ‘landlord’, and ‘tenant’ have meanings corresponding to the meaning of the term ‘tenancy’.”

(3)

Nothing in this section shall affect the rights of the parties under any judgment given in any Court before the passing of this Act, or under any judgment given on appeal from any such judgment, whether the appeal is commenced before or after the passing of this Act.

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