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9月28日新西兰新闻秘书处消息，政府已作出改变，以减轻COVID-19限制对商业和住宅租赁的影响。作为提交议会的《COVID-19应对立法法案》的一部分，正在采取措施帮助企业解决商业租金纠纷，并通过保护住宅租赁在COVID-19警戒4级期间不被终止，为房东和租户提供更大的确定性。
司法部长克里斯·法福伊（Kris Faafoi）表示：关于商业租赁情况，我们听到了企业经营者的担忧，即在企业收入受COVID影响时，收入受到限制而无法支付全额租金，因此，建议对《物权法》进行修订，在商业租赁中加入一项条款，要求在房客因COVID-19限制而无法在其房地内充分开展业务的情况下支付公平比例的租金。房东和房客需要就公平租金金额达成一致。他们也可以同意该条款不适用″。 “如果房东和房客无法就公平租金比例达成一致，除非他们同意调解等替代性争端解决程序，否则将需要仲裁。一旦该法律获得通过，隐含条款将从2021年9月28日起生效。 拟议的法律修改仅适用于在流行病毒紧急情况下尚未规定调整租金支付条件的租赁。因此，在2021年9月28日之前达成的调整租金义务以反映COVID-19情况的协议不会受到隐含条款的影响”。 司法部长说:”这一变化有助于确保房东和房客就租金义务达成合理的协议，同时仍然尊重已经达成的协议。原则上，协议需要反映 COVID-19 当前情况的独特性，并提供房东和租户共同分担 COVID-19 限制影响带来的财务负担的手段”。
住房部副部长波托·威廉姆斯说：”《住宅租赁法》的修改将使对住宅租赁终止的限制能够由部长令打开和关闭，使新的修改变得灵活和迅速。这是关于面向未来的租赁法，为房东和房客提供了急需的确定性和清晰性。 这些修改将被视为COVID-19响应立法法案的简短专责委员会程序的一部分，部长们鼓励受影响者提交意见书，包括商业租金条款应生效的时间”。
Tenancy measures introduced to further support COVID-19 impacted businesses and tenants
The Government has introduced changes to help ease the impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on both commercial and residential tenancies.
As part of the COVID-19 Response Legislation Bill introduced to Parliament, measures are being taken to help businesses resolve disputes over commercial rent, as well as provide greater certainty for landlords and tenants by protecting residential tenancies from being terminated during COVID-19 Alert Level 4.
“With regards to commercial rental situations, we have heard the concerns from business operators unable to meet full rental costs while their incomes have been hit by COVID restrictions needed to contain the spread of the virus,” Justice Minister Kris Faafoi said.
“Therefore an amendment to the Property Law Act is proposed to insert a clause into commercial leases requiring a ‘fair proportion’ of rent to be paid where a tenant has been unable to fully conduct their business in their premises due to the COVID-19 restrictions.
“Landlord and tenant would need to agree on the amount of rent that is fair. They could also agree that the clause does not apply,” Kris Faafoi said.
Arbitration will be required where landlords and tenants are unable to come to agreement about a fair rent proportion, unless they agree to an alternative dispute resolution process such as mediation.
Once the law is passed, the implied clause would take effect from today, 28 September 2021.
“The proposed law change would only apply to leases which do not already provide for adjusted rent payment terms during an epidemic emergency. Therefore, agreements made prior to 28 September 2021 to adjust rent obligations to reflect the COVID-19 situation would not be affected by the implied clause,” Kris Faafoi said.
“This change helps to ensure that landlords and tenants come to reasonable agreements about rent obligations, while still respecting agreements that have already been made.
“In principle agreements need to reflect the uniqueness of the current COVID-19 situation, and provide the means by which both landlords and tenants can share the financial burden of the impact of COVID-19 restrictions.
“The Residential Tenancies Act changes will enable restrictions against residential tenancy terminations to be switched on and off by Ministerial order – making the new changes flexible and responsive,” Associate Housing Minister Poto Williams said.
“This is about future-proofing tenancy law and provides much needed certainty and clarity for landlords and tenants,” Poto Williams said.
The changes are to be considered as a part of a short select committee process on the COVID-19 Response Legislation Bill and Ministers encourage those affected to make submissions, including from when the commercial rent clause should be effective.
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