New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LANDLORD AND TENANT (AMENDMENT) ACT 1948 - SECT 90A

90A Certain contracts to be void

(1) A person shall not, whether as principal or agent or in any other capacity, enter into any contract or arrangement, whether oral or in writing, under which it is agreed:

(a) that in consideration of any person acting for or on behalf of, representing or advising another person in proceedings under Part 2 a sum of money or any other consideration, based on, dependent upon or related to any increase in the fair rent of any prescribed premises that may be granted pursuant to those proceedings shall be paid, taken or given, or

(b) that, dependent upon whether vacant possession of any prescribed premises is obtained, a sum of money or any other consideration will be paid, taken or given.

(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence against this Act.

(3) Any such contract or arrangement entered into before the date on which the assent of Her Majesty to the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1968 was signified shall be void, but nothing in this subsection shall prevent either party to such a contract or agreement enforcing it if he or she has, before that commencement, performed all of his or her obligations under the contract or agreement.