Page 2776 - Week 09 - Thursday, 25 August 1994

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right of tenants to renew leases and the fact that existing lessees may be disadvantaged by limited retrospectivity. Not surprisingly landlords groups take a different view on these issues and, while acknowledging that some landlords have not been fair in the past, they do not accept the premise that landlords have all the power and, by inference, abuse that power.

Madam Speaker, I believe that this Bill is a constructive step forward in regularising the relationship between landlords and commercial and retail tenants in the ACT. While I support this Bill in principle, I shall be giving the Bill and the Code, and the amendments which have been foreshadowed, further careful consideration prior to debate at the detail stage of the Bill in the Assembly.

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