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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 37, Number 25. 25th September 1974

[Introduction]

Like the Rent Appeal Act, the recently introduced Property Law Amendment Bill appears to be a greater advance in the rights of tenants than it really is. The Rent Appeal Act is supposed to keep rents at an "equitable" level, and the Property Law Amendment Bill is supposed to provide a way in which the condition of rental housing in New Zealand can be brought to a better level.

Unfortunately both pieces of legislation suffer from the same fundamental fault. They rely on an initiative being taken by people who are mostly unaware of their rights, and who, even if they know of their rights are too ill-educated or too frightened of the forces of bureaucracy or, at least in the case of the Property Law Amendment Bill, who are too poor to exercise their rights.