§ 132

Before improvements are initiated, including comprehensive improvements under § 19, and renovation work related to the merging of apartments, the rent tribunal may, at the landlord's request, decide on the amount of rent that can legally be charged if the renovation work is carried out in accordance with the project materials regarding the intended work, which the landlord must present to the rent tribunal, cf. stk. 4.

Stk. 2.Before the owner of an owner-occupied dwelling or the shareholder with the right to use a specific residential apartment decides to rent out the dwelling, the rent tribunal may also decide on the amount of rent that can legally be charged. However, this access only applies to owners who do not own other rented owner-occupied dwellings and to shareholders who do not have the right to use other rented cooperative dwellings.

Stk. 3.Before the landlord initiates renovation work under the provision in § 2, no. 1-4, in the previously applicable law on private urban renewal, and if there has been a reservation of an investment framework under the previously applicable law on private urban renewal, the rent tribunal may, at the landlord's request, decide on the amount of rent that can legally be charged. The rent tribunal may require documentation that an investment framework has been reserved under the previously applicable law on private urban renewal.

Stk. 4.Simultaneously with the submission to the tribunal under stk. 1, the landlord must send project materials containing the nature of the works, an indication of the expected amount of rent or rent increase, and the estimated costs of carrying out the works to the rent tribunal and the tenants affected by the improvement work.

Stk. 5.The rent tribunal's decision on prior approval must be made no later than 2 months after the rent tribunal has received comments under § 83, in the Housing Act or responses under § 84, in the Housing Act, or when the deadline for responses under the provisions has expired.

Stk. 6.The rent tribunal can only change the rent set by the prior approval if there are changed circumstances.