COVID - 19 And Temporary Provisions For Statutory Tenants

COVID - 19 has political, economic, social and legal consequences. Governments were forced to take urgent temporary measures to deal with this pandemic.

In Cyprus one of the questions that were raised was what would happen with the statutory tenancy, which falls under the protection of the Rent Control Law No. 23/1983 ("the Law") and specifically the non-payment of rent. The Law was very recently amended on 31^st January 2020. The aim behind the latest amendment of section 11 of the Law was to tackle the cases where tenants who failed to pay the outstanding rent continued to remain in the leased property, whilst court proceedings for their eviction were taking quite a long time to be heard.