Frith v Diver

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1940
• Date: 01 January 1940
• Court: Circuit Court

(Cir. Ct.),

Frith

and

Diver

Rates - "Period not exceeding six months" - Whether in one year only - Period intended for repair and for procurement of new tenant - Increase of Pent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Acts, 1923 and 1926.

Section 16 of the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1923, as amended by s. 9 of the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1926, exempts in certain circumstances, from the payment of rates "during any period not exceeding six months" the person deemed to be in rateable occupation of a dwelling-house. Held, that the exemption operated with respect to one period of six...