What are the detailed rules for rent-free during the epidemic?

During the epidemic period, the detailed provision of rent-free is that if the rented house cannot achieve the purpose of production and operation now, the landlord will be exempted from rent during the epidemic control period. Enterprises that have resumed their work during the epidemic, but now suffer serious losses, can negotiate with the landlord to reduce some rents. A house rented by an individual cannot be completely rent-free.

1. What are the detailed regulations for rent-free during the epidemic?

(1) If the leased house is used for production and operation, and there are clear administrative control policies that make it impossible to achieve the purpose of use, it is exempt from paying rent.

This situation refers to the situation that the lease contract cannot be directly performed due to the administrative measures taken by the government and relevant departments to prevent and control the novel coronavirus epidemic. Such as internet cafes, KTV, bars, cinemas, supermarkets, restaurants, farmers' markets and so on. At the request of the government, these factories have been closed. Another example is the factory that cannot be started because of the government policy to extend the holiday, which leads to the factory being unable to be used for production and operation. At this time, because the lessor cannot provide the rented house for the lessee to continue to use normally due to administrative control, the lessee certainly does not have to pay the corresponding rent, and the lessor does not have to bear the liability for breach of contract for not providing qualified rented house.

(two) the lessee continues to use the leased property for business operations, but due to the epidemic, the income is obviously reduced or even lost, and may request a partial rent reduction.

In this case, during the epidemic period, the lessee has been occupying and using the leased property for business activities, so it is obviously unreasonable to exempt the rent. Because the epidemic situation has a significant impact on production and operation, such as the public is frightened by the epidemic situation or the government restricts people from going out, resulting in a significant decrease in the number of people in shopping malls, and the epidemic situation has seriously affected production and operation, resulting in a significant decrease in the lessee's income or even a loss, the lessee may request a partial rent reduction on this basis. In this regard, the court may also reduce part of the rent as appropriate.

(three) the lessee continues to use the leased property for business, and if the epidemic situation has not led to a significant decrease in its income, it shall not ask for rent reduction.

(4) If the lessee uses the leased property for residential functions during the epidemic period, it may not ask for rent reduction or rent-free.

During the outbreak of the epidemic, although the epidemic has brought inconvenience to the lessee in using the rented house, it has not affected the purpose of the original lease contract, and it is impossible to advocate rent reduction. The "home isolation" of the lessee due to the epidemic situation is the fulfillment of the lessee's legal responsibility, which has not affected the living function of the leased house, and it is impossible to advocate rent reduction or rent-free.

(five) due to the epidemic situation, the lessee can not use the leased property for residential functions during the epidemic period, and can ask for rent reduction.

If the leased property is blocked due to an epidemic, and the lessee cannot return to his residence to use the leased residential house due to administrative control, and the lessee cannot achieve the purpose of the lease contract because he does not enjoy the income from the residential house, just like the lessee for business mentioned in the above example, he should be able to claim rent reduction from the lessor.

In fact, the rent policy we provided during the epidemic was detailed enough. Therefore, it is up to the lessee to analyze whether it belongs to the rent-free part. But the rent-free policy is not mandatory, so the lessee must negotiate the rent with the landlord.