South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts56—Rentals payable for classified house
(1) During the time
any notice fixing the maximum rental of any house or any part thereof is in
force under this Part, and notwithstanding any change in ownership or
occupation of the house or part, the maximum rent per week which shall be
payable in respect of the house or part thereof, as the case may be, shall be
that fixed as aforesaid by the housing authority.
(2) Any amount by
which the rent of the said house or part thereof, as the case may be, is in
excess of the said maximum rental shall, notwithstanding any agreement to the
contrary, be irrecoverable.
(3) Where any sum has
been paid on account of any rent, being a sum which by virtue of this Part
would have been irrecoverable by the landlord, the sum so paid shall at any
time within six months after the date of payment, be recoverable from the
landlord who received the payment or his legal personal representative, by the
tenant by whom it was paid, and may, without prejudice to any other method of
recovery, be deducted by that tenant from any rent payable within such six
months by him to such landlord.
(4) If any person in
any rent book or similar document makes any entry showing or purporting to
show any tenant as being in arrear in respect of any sum which by virtue of
this Part is irrecoverable, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.