New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LANDLORD AND TENANT (AMENDMENT) ACT 1948 - SECT 18

18 Application to have fair rent fixed

(1) The lessor, or a lessee who has paid, or has offered (either to the lessor personally or to the person to whom the rent is ordinarily paid) the money payable for, all rent due and payable under the lease up to a date not earlier than twenty-eight days before the date of the receipt of the application in the office of the clerk of the Board, of any prescribed premises other than shared accommodation (not being prescribed premises in relation to which a Fair Rents Board is not authorised to exercise the powers conferred by this Part), or the person having power to lease any such premises which are not leased in exercise of that power, may apply in writing to a Fair Rents Board to have the fair rent of the prescribed premises determined by the Board.

(2) Such application shall be made to the Board nearest to the prescribed premises or to any other Board if that other Board is satisfied that hardship will not be occasioned thereby to any party to the determination.