New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LANDLORD AND TENANT (AMENDMENT) ACT 1948 - SECT 7

7 Holiday premises

(1) Where any prescribed premises are not holiday premises by reason only of the fact that they have at some time subsequent to the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five, and before the commencement of the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1952 , been leased to or occupied by a lessee for a continuous period exceeding three months or that they have at some time after the commencement of the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1952 been leased to or occupied by a lessee for a continuous period exceeding eight weeks, the owner or lessor of those prescribed premises may make application in writing to the Director-General to exclude the premises from the operation of this Act.

(2) The applicant shall furnish such information in relation to the application as the Director-General requires.

(3) The Director-General, in his or her discretion, may, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as he or she thinks fit, issue a certificate excluding the premises from the operation of this Act or of such of the provisions of this Act as are specified in the certificate, for such period as is so specified and the premises shall, so long as the certificate remains in force, but subject to any variation thereof, be excluded accordingly.

(4) Any certificate issued or purporting to have been issued before the commencement of this Act under sub-regulation three of Regulation 7A of the Commonwealth Regulations and having force or effect or purporting to have force or effect in this State immediately before such commencement shall continue to have force and effect in all respects as if this section had been in force at the time when such certificate was issued or purported to have been issued and the certificate had been issued under this section.

(5) The Director-General may at any time revoke or vary any certificate issued under subsection (3) or continued in force under subsection (4).