ACT No. XXXl of 1995 AN ACT 10 amend the Housing U1ws.

I assent.

Uoo MiFSUD BoNNICI

(LS.)

President

7th December, l99S

ACT No. XXXl of 1995

AN ACT 10 amend the Housing U1ws.

B E IT ENAC I ED by the President. by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Rc~talives. in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows

I . This Act may be cited as the Housing Laws Amendment Act,

1995, and shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st June,

1995.

Immediately after section 45 of the Rclcning or Urban Propeny

(Regulation)Ordinance, there shall be added the follow ing new section

46. ( I) The foregoing provisions of this Ordinance

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shall not apply 10 the lease of any premises entered into on or

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after the 1st JUI'lC. 1995 .

(2)

For the purposes of this section -

(a) the term "lease" includes any lening asdefined

in paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of section 44 of this

Ordinance and includes a sublease

the renewal of a lease on or after the I St June,

(b)

1995 (w hether such renewal be conventional, legal,

customary or otherwise) shall not be deemed to be a lease

entered into on or after the 1st June, 1995.".

Immediately after section 16 of the Rent Restriction (Dwelling

Houses) O rd inance. there shall be added the following new section

( I) The foregoing provisions of Ihis Ordinance

shall not apply to the lease of any dwelling house entered

into on or after the 1st June, 1995.

(2)

For the purposes of Ihis section -

(a)

lease includes a sublease; and

(b) the renewal of a lease on or after the 1st June,

1995. (whether such renewal be conventional. legal.

customary orothcrwise) shall not bedeemed to be a lease

entered into on or after the 1st June, 1995."

4. Immediately after section 15 of the Housing (Decontrol) _ : .... of ....

Ordinance, there shall be added the following new section

16. The provisions of subsecti ons (2) to (5) of

(I)

section 5, section 7, section 10 and section 11 of this

Ordinance, shall not apply 10 lhe: lease of any dwelling house

entered inlO on or after the 1st June, 1995.

(2)

For the purposes of subsection (I) of this

section -

(a) the renewal of a lease on or after the 1st June,

1995 (w hether such renewal be conventional, legal,

customary orotherwisc) shall not be deemed to be a lease

entered into on or after the I SI June, 1995

(b) the continued occupation of a dwel ling housc

under a lease from thedirtctusdominus at the expiration

of a temporary emphyteutical concession expiring on or

after the 1st June, 1995 in'terms of section 12 of th is

Ordinance shall not be deemed to be a lease entered into

on or after the IstJ une, 1995.

(3) Theprovisionsofscction 120fthisOrrlinanceshall

not apply 10 any contract of temporary emphyteutis entered

inloon or afterthe: Istlune.I995 ....

5. Nothing in sections 2, 3 and 4 of Ihis Act shall be deemed 10 So";" • .

restrict any of the powers of the Director of Social Housing under the

Housing Act, (Cap. 125) and the provisions of the Ordinances referred

[0 in the said sections as in force immed iately before the coming into

force of thi s Act shall, in as far as applicable, continue to apply with

regard to the relationship between the said Di rector and al!y owner of

premises in possession afthe said Director on that date, or between the

said Director and any person legally in occupation of ~uc h premises.

The provisions of the said Ordinance~ as aforesaid shall also continue

to regulale the re lationship between any pe~ in occupation of such

prem ises and the owner thereof.

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 479 or llle 28th November.

1995. LAWRIlNCI! G ONZI

Speaker

R ICHA RD J. C."UCHI

Clerk to the House oJ Representatives

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