Supplementary to Question No. 8 in the
Legislative Council on 1 May 1985
Mrs. CHOW
Can the Secretary for Housing pleased give us an indication as to
the number of cases where the tenant and the authority failed to
agree on a rent renewal, say in the last six months, and how many
of these are subsequently rented out to new tenants at a rent level lower than that offered by the Authority to the old tenant and will
to there be a review on this practice which appears to be unfair the
人 original tenant ?
Secretary for Housing :- Sir, over the last period of six months, that is, during
the period running up to the present day, 112 commercial tenancies gave notice to quit, 90 of these were during the initial tenancy
and 10 only were on renewal and 32 during subseqent tenancies.. As far as the rental procedures are concerned new rents are tendered on
a basis of a tendered rental and therefore the rental which is set will
depend upon the tender which is received. This will very rarely be less than the figure which was offered to outgoing the tenant .