Rent Increase - Re: Year 2020

Bill 204, Helping Tenants and Small Businesses Act, 2020

• Status as of October 1, 2020: Third Reading - Carried

136.1 (1) In this section,

“rent freeze period” means the period that begins on January 1, 2021 and ends on December 31, 2021.

(2) This section does not apply with respect to,

(a) accommodation described in clause 6 (1) (a) or (b);

(b) an increase in rent for a rental unit taken in accordance with an agreement under section 121 or 123;

(c) an increase in rent for a rental unit permitted under subsection 126 (10) or section 127 for,

(i) an extraordinary increase in the cost for municipal taxes and charges as described in paragraph 1 of subsection 126 (1), if the increase in rent is permitted by an order of the Board that was issued before the day the Helping Tenants and Small Businesses Act, 2020 receives Royal Assent,

(ii) eligible capital expenditures as described in paragraph 2 of subsection 126 (1), or

(iii) operating costs related to security services as described in paragraph 3 of subsection 126 (1); or

(d) an increase in rent payable by an assignee under a tenancy agreement for a site for a mobile home or a site on which there is a land lease home in accordance with section 165.

(3) No landlord shall increase the rent charged to a tenant during the rent freeze period, even if notice of the increase was given before the day the Helping Tenants and Small Businesses Act, 2020 receives Royal Assent.

(4) For greater certainty, nothing in subsection (3) prohibits a landlord from giving a notice during the rent freeze period of a rent increase that takes effect after the rent freeze period.

(5) For greater certainty, in the event of a conflict between this section and a regulation made under section 50 of the Housing Services Act, 2011, this section prevails.