CLAUSE 9.—(Interpretation and Saving.) (Hansard, 27 October 1943)

§ The Lord Advocate

I beg to move, in page 4, line 20, at the end, to insert: the expression 'services' includes attendance, the provision of heating or lighting, the supply of hot water and any other privilege or facility connected with the occupancy of a house or part of a house. (2) Where separate sums are payable by the lessee of any premises to the lessor for any two or more of the following, namely:— (a) occupation of the premises; (b) use of furniture; and (c) services; the expression 'rent' shall, in relation to those premises, mean the aggregate of those sums, and where such sums are payable under separate contracts, those contracts shall be deemed to be one contract. This Amendment is, in part, consequential on an earlier Amendment which has been accepted and the second part is devised to prevent evasion by people putting into two or more documents what ought to be in one. Even if they do that, they are not to be able to evade the consequences of the Measure.