19ASpecial provisions applying to rent payable under leases and tenancies of State housing land

1. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the Residential Tenancies Act 1986, any other enactment, or rule of law, for the purposes of determining the rent payable under a lease or tenancy granted by Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities in respect of State housing land, whether before or after the commencement of the Housing Amendment Act 1992 and whether or not the land or the lease or tenancy has been vested in Housing New Zealand Limited pursuant to the Public and Community Housing Management Act 1992,—

2. no term or condition shall be taken to be implied in the lease or tenancy, whether before or after the commencement of the Housing Amendment Act 1992, limiting the rent payable or increases in the rent payable to an amount that is less than the amount stated in or determined under the lease or tenancy agreement or otherwise determined by the Tenancy Tribunal, as the case may be, by reason or on account of any decision, direction, or policy of the Crown to require payment of an amount that is less than the amount so stated or determined:
3. no effect shall be given to any representation made by or on behalf of Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities, whether before or after the commencement of the Housing Amendment Act 1992, limiting the rent payable or increases in the rent payable to an amount that is less than the amount stated in or determined under the lease or tenancy agreement or otherwise determined by the Tenancy Tribunal, as the case may be, by reason or on account of any decision, direction, or policy of the Crown to require payment of an amount that is less than the amount so stated or determined.

4. Nothing in subsection (1) shall be taken as imposing any liability on the Crown or Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities to pay compensation to any person.