The Tenants' Emergency Charter. Fifth Edition. (Oliver and Boyd. 2s.
net.)—This very useful little guide to the Rent Restriction Acts has been re-written so as to cover the new and still more drastic Act passed this year, which repeals the others. The author justly remarks that the new Act is " so framed and expressed as not to be understandable by people of ordinary intelligence and education," and the question is now so complicated that even his own commentary needs careful reading. For ordinary householders it is well to note that the landlord is " always held to his bargain," and that " he cannot during the currency of any lease or tenancy agree- ment obtain any of the increases of rent " sanctioned by the Act. Further, the limit of rent—£105 in London, £90 in Scotland and £78 elsewhere—beyond which the Act does not apply is referred back to the day on which war was declared. Moreover, unless both the rent and the rateable value of a house in London exceeded £105 on August 3rd, 1914, the house comes within the scope of the Act. The Act abounds with pitfalls for both landlord and tenant, as this pamphlet shows.
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