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Ord. No. 38/79
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND ADOPTION (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS)
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 6th day of June 1979.
STEPHEN S. P. Tam,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
STEPHEN S. P. Tam, Clerk to the Legislative Council.
LANDLORD AND TENANT (CONSOLIDATION) Ord. No. 39/79
(AMENDMENT)
L.S.
HONG KONG
No. 39 of 1979
I assent.
MURRAY MACLEHOSE,
Governor.
7th June, 1979.
An Ordinance to amend the Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance.
[8th June, 1979]
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
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1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Landlord and Tenant Short title and (Consolidation) (Amendment) Ordinance 1979.
commencement.
(2) Sections 20, 21(b)(i), (c), (d) and (e), 22, 23 and 24 shall come into operation on 1 July 1984.
(3) Sections 19 and 21(a) and (b)(ii) shall be deemed to have come into operation on 4 May 1979.
2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting Amendment of after the definition of "domestic premises" the following-
section 2.
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"fair market rent" means the rent, exclusive of rates, at which premises the subject matter of a tenancy to which this Part applies might reasonably be expected to be let, at the date of service of a notice under section 10(1A), on the terms of the tenancy (other than those relating to rent and duration of the tenancy) but disregarding the effect of this Part;".
3.
Section 3(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) in paragraph (g) by deleting "or" where it occurs after the
semicolon;
(b) in paragraph (h) by deleting the full stop and substituting the
following-
"; or";
(c) by inserting after paragraph (h) the following-
"(i) any premises which are, or since the date of publication
in the Gazette as a Bill of the Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) (Amendment) Ordinance 1979 have been, business premises, other than premises the subject of a subletting by a principal tenant of domestic premises:
Provided that no premises shall be excluded by reason of this paragraph from the operation of this Part before 1 July 1984.".
Amendment of
section 3.