31MA   Interim determination

Where an application has been made to a Fair Rents Board or the Director-General for a determination, the Fair Rents Board or the Director-General, as the case may be, may, from time to time and at any stage of the proceedings on the application and notwithstanding anything contained in section 20, subsection (6) of section 26B or subsection (5) of section 27 and without having regard to the matters specified in section 21, make an interim determination.

Any interim determination so made shall be deemed to be a determination, and shall remain in force until:

(a)  the making of a later interim determination in the proceedings, or

(b)  the application has been finally disposed of by the board to which the application was made or the Director-General, as the case may be,

whichever first happens, and no longer.

Any determination finally disposing of the application may be made as if an interim determination or determinations had not been made.