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Business Tenancies (Fair Dealings) Act 2003
29Reviews of current market rent
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29 Reviews of current market rent
(1) A retail shop lease that provides for rent to be changed to current
market rent, or that provides an option to renew or extend the lease
at current market rent, is taken to include provisions to the following
(a) the current market rent is the rent that would reasonably be
expected to be paid for the shop, determined on an effective
rent basis, having regard to the following matters:
(i) the provisions of the lease;
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(ii) the rent that would reasonably be expected to be paid
for the shop, in a free and open market between a willing
landlord and a willing tenant in an arm's length
transaction, if it were unoccupied and offered for renting
for the same or a substantially similar use to which the
shop may be put under the lease;
(iii) the gross rent, less the landlord's outgoings payable by
the tenant;
(iv) rent concessions and other benefits that are frequently
or generally offered to prospective tenants of unoccupied
retail shops;
(b) for paragraph (a), the current market rent is not to take into
account the value of goodwill created by the tenant's
occupation or the value of the tenant's fixtures and fittings on
the retail shop premises;
(c) if the landlord and the tenant do not agree as to what the
actual amount of that rent is to be, the amount of the rent is to
be determined by a valuation carried out by:
(i) a specialist retail valuer appointed by agreement
between the parties to the lease; or
(ii) if the parties cannot agree as to who is to be appointed
under subparagraph (i) – a specialist retail valuer
appointed by the Commissioner;
(d) in determining the amount of current market rent, a specialist
retail valuer must take into account the matters set out in
paragraph (a);
(e) the landlord must, not later than 14 days after a request by a
specialist retail valuer appointed under paragraph (c), supply
the valuer with all relevant information about leases for retail
shops situated in the same building or retail shopping centre
to assist the valuer to determine the current market rent;
(f) a valuation for paragraph (c) is to be in writing, to contain
detailed reasons for the specialist retail valuer's determination
and to specify the matters to which the valuer had regard in
making his or her determination;
(g) the parties to the lease are to pay in equal shares the costs of
a valuation by a specialist retail valuer.
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(2) A specialist retail valuer appointed under subsection (1)(c) must
make the valuation of current market rent not later than one month
after accepting the appointment.
(3) A specialist retail valuer may apply under Part 11 for an order that a
landlord comply with a request mentioned in subsection (1)(e) to
supply relevant information about leases for retail shops situated in
the same building or retail shopping centre to assist the valuer to
determine the rent.