New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LANDLORD AND TENANT (AMENDMENT) ACT 1948 - SECT 20

20 Determination of application

(1) Where an application has been made for the determination of the fair rent of any prescribed premises other than shared accommodation, the Fair Rents Board shall, after making such inquiries and obtaining such reports (if any) as it considers necessary, and after considering any representations made by any person whose rights may be affected by the determination, determine the fair rent of the prescribed premises at an amount equal to the rent of the prescribed premises at the prescribed date adjusted by such amount as the Board deems proper having regard only to the matters specified in section 21 or, where the prescribed premises were not leased at the prescribed date, at an amount equal to the rental value of the prescribed premises at the prescribed date adjusted in like manner.

(3) Where the Fair Rents Board is of opinion, having regard to the matters specified in section 21, that the rent of the prescribed premises, being premises that were leased on the prescribed date, was, as at that date, insufficient, the determination may increase the fair rent (in addition to any other amount by which it is increased under this section) by an amount not exceeding the amount which, in the opinion of the Fair Rents Board, is the amount of the insufficiency.

(4) In this section, "the prescribed date", in relation to any prescribed premises, means the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, or, where the prescribed premises were not in existence on that date, the date on which the erection of the premises was completed.