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A BILL
[No. 93.4.40.-1.]
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Prevention of Eviction Con-
solidation and Amendment Ordinance, 1939.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Prevention of Short title. Eviction Amendment Ordinance, 1940.
No. 44 of
2. Section 2 (1) of the Prevention of Eviction Con- Amendments solidation and Amendment Ordinance (hereinafter in this to Ordinance Ordinance referred to as 'the principal Ordinance") is 1939, s. 2 amended-
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(i) by the substitution of the word tenement for the word "dwelling-house" wherever it occurs in paragraphs (b) and (f);
(ii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (h):--
(i) "tenement means any land with or without build- ings, which is held or occupied as a distinct or separate holding or tenancy including a bed-space so held or occupied.
(1).
3. Section 2 (2) of the principal Ordinance is repealed Substitution and the following sub-section is substituted therefor :-
for Ordin- ance No. 44
s. 2 (2).
(2) This Ordinance shall apply to every tenement in the of 1939, Colony except to a furnished dwelling bonâ fide let at a rent which includes payments in respect of board and attendance
4. Sub-section (2) of section 3 of the principal Ordin- Amendments ance is amended---
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(2).
(i) by the deletion of the words person who on the 1939, s. 3 third day of June, 1938, was the tenant of a dwelling house" in the first three lines thereof, and by the substitution therefor of the words tenant of a tenement to which this
Ordinance applies ";
(ii) by the deletion of the word "dwelling-house " wherever it occurs in the remainder of the sub-section and by the substitution therefor of the word tenement ".
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5. Sub-section (3) of section 3 of the principal Ordin- Amendment ance is amended by the deletion of the words
dwelling to Ordinance houses in the locality at the end thereof and by the 1939, s. 3 substitution therefor of the words "tenements in the locality, (3). but not allowing any increase or anticipated increase in respect of taxation under the War Revenue Ordinance, 1940 ".