Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Subject to the provisions of this Act and notwith- Restriction standing any contract to the contrary no landlord shall be on enhance-entitled to chatge monthly rent for any house at a figure ment of rent.pjjg^gj. t pja n a v e r a ge m o n t}1|y r e n t actually paid for the same house by any tenant over the period from the month of January 1943 to the month of September, 1943 inclusive, or (if it is impossible in any particular case to calculate in a manner fair to both the landlord and the tenant what such average monthly rent over the aforesaid period would be, or if the house has not been let during that period), at a figure higher than that which the Court shall, having regard to the rent of similar houses in the neighbourhood, deter mine to be fair and equitable : Provided that if a landlord has, after the first day of January, 1943, effected any addition, improvement or alteration in a house (not being repairs within the meaning of the provisions of section 7 of this Act) at his. own expense, he will be entitled to such increase over the average monthly rent as the Court may consider fair and equitable having regard to the provisions of section 5 of this Act.,