§ FORM OF NOTICE BY LANDLORD.
§ INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) ACT, 1920.
§ Date
§ To
§ Address of premises to which this notice refers … …
§ Take notice that I intend to increase the rent of l. s. d. per at present payable by you as tenant of the above-named premises by the amount of l. s. d. per
§ The increase is made up as follows:—
§ (d) l. s. d. under paragraph (d) of Sub-section (1) of Section two of the Act, in respect of repairs, for which I am wholly [partly] responsible being per cent. on the net rent of the premises. The net rent is l. s. d. The standard rent is 1. s. d.
§ The increase under head (b) will date from , being one clear week from the date of this notice, and the remaining increases from, being four clear weeks from the date of this notice.
§ Lords Amendment:
§ In paragraph (d,) leave out the words "in respect of repairs, for which I am wholly [partly] responsible".
§ Read a Second time.
§ The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir E. Pollock)I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
§ Colonel WEDGWOODWhat is this?
§ Sir E. POLLOCKIf hon. Members will turn to the Schedule on page 22, they will find under paragraph (d), line 26, this scheme under which notice is to be given in respect of repairs for which the landlord is wholly or partly responsible. This might not meet all cases, because the houses might be in repair, and therefore we leave out those words in order that then a note can be put in the Schedule, that the increase "is on account of my responsibility for repairs, for no part of which you are under an express liability." It is in order to meet the case in which a house is in repair, and in which there is a liability to repair, where repairs may have been done on the responsibility of the landlord, and still leave a liability which must be brought into the account in serving with the notice.
§ Lords Amendments:
§
In paragraph (d), after the word "notice" ["four clear weeks from the date of this notice"], insert:
‡The increase under head (d) is on account of my responsibility for repairs, for no part [part only] of which you are under an express liability.
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At end of footnotes add
‡Where the tenant is under an express liability for part of the repairs, the increase under head (d) is to be settled in default of agreement by the County Court.
§ Agreed to.
§ Dr. ADDISONI beg to move, "That a Committee be appointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for disagreeing to certain of their Amendments to the Bill."
§ Mr. SPENCERCan I ask the Minister in charge if, when he reports this Bill to the House, and the House is not able to agree with the Lords' Amendments, whether it will be still possible for him to press for the Amendment giving safety to the occupiers in cases of strikes and lock-outs?
§ Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to draw up Reasons to be assigned to the Lords for disagreeing to certain of their Amendments to the Bill.
§ Committee nominated of, Dr. Addison, the Lord Advocate, Mr. A. MacCallum Scott, Mr. William Graham, and Major Barnes.
§ Three to be the quorum.
§ To withdraw immediately. —[Dr. Addison.]
§ To be communicated to the Lords.—[Dr. Addison.]
§ The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.
§ It being after half-past Eleven of the clock upon Thursday evening, Mr. SPEAKER adjourned the House, without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.
§ Adjourned at Twenty-nine Minutes after Three o'clock a.m