Page 3264 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 21 September 1994
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It is important to remember that the role of the Bill is to establish the tribunal and to say that there is a process by which disputes can be resolved. The process goes through mediation first, then to a tribunal that has the teeth to ensure that the sorts of processes that are followed in a code of practice are part of the normal process of the relationship between the landlord and the tenant - a relationship that until now has strongly favoured the landlord. Certainly, even should the amendments that have been foreshadowed - Mr Connolly's supplementary B amendments - not get through and even if the amendments that I am putting up do not get through, as I suspect will be the case, then, Madam Speaker, this still does provide a far better balance between the powers of the owner and the powers of the tenant.
Madam Speaker, let me say that I will be looking forward to a time when we can ensure that leases that are currently part and parcel of agreements fit into what is the new community standard, and I will speak about that a little later. I would like to indicate now, Madam Speaker, that these amendments that have been put up by the Attorney-General are in order, and I am quite happy to support them.
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (4.43): Madam Speaker, could I seek leave to not move amendment No. 2 on the white sheet? That is the one that is replaced by the amendment on the pink sheet. So, I seek leave not to move that.
Leave granted.
MR CONNOLLY: Thank you, members.
Amendment No. 2, by leave, withdrawn.
Amendments agreed to.
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (4.44): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to move together the supplementary B amendments circulated in my name.
Leave granted.
MR CONNOLLY: I move:
Page 6, lines 14 and 15, clause 6, paragraph (c), omit the paragraph, substitute the following paragraphs:
"(c) a dispute about key money in relation to a lease or to negotiations for the entering into of a lease;
(ca) a dispute about a multiple rent review clause or a ratchet clause in relation to a lease;".
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