Section 34 Rent Control and Recovery of Residential Premises Law

Section 34 of the Rent Control and Recovery of Residential Premises Law of Lagos State 1997 is about Regulations. It provides as follows:

The Governor may make regulations providing for any matter for which provision
appears to him to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of
this Law and in particular, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, for all
or any of the following matters—
(a) regulating the procedure on application to and hearing by, a Tribunal and the
fixing of fees for the filling, service and hearing of applications;

(b) permitting a tenant whose landlord refuses to accept any rent tendered to him,
to pay the same into the Tribunal and for regulating the payment to the landlord of
any sum so paid, the hearing and determination of applications in respect of the
same, and the fixing of fees to be charged in respect of such payments;

(c) prescribing forms to be used for the process and procedure of the Tribunal;

(d) prescribing the amount of increase or reduction to be allowed by the Tribunal in
relation to repairs to premises according as the liability to make them is established
before the Tribunal;

(e) prescribing the type and nature of repairs or fixtures in premises where the
accommodation is and the amount to be allowed in computing a standard rent where the Tribunal as satisfied that the repairs or fixtures, as the case may be, are
necessary to make the premises reasonably fit for human habitation;

(f) prescribing the forms and records to be used or kept by the Tribunal or as
record of payment under any tenancy agreement;

(g) prescribing the imposition of penalties (other than for non-compliance with any
order fixing standard rent); and

(h) generally for matters coming before the Tribunal.

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