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A BILL
[No. 9:—3.4.40.—1.]
Short title.
Amendments to Ordinance No. 44 of
1939, s. 2
(1).
Substitution
for Ordin- ance No. 44 of 1939, s. 2 (2).
Amendments to Ordinance No. 44 of 1939, s. 3
(2).
Amendment to Ordinance No. 44 of 1939, s. 3 (3).
Amendments to Ordinance
No. 44 of
1939, s. 3
(4).
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 Eviction Amendment Ordinance, 1940.
2. Section 2 (1) of the Prevention of Eviction Con- solidation and Amendment Ordinance (hereinafter in this Ordinance referred to as "the principal Ordinance") is
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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)---
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(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.
3. Section 2 (2) of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following sub-section is substituted therefor :---
(2) This Ordinance shall apply to every tenement in the Colony except to a furnished dwelling bona 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- ance is amended---
(i) by the deletion of the words person who on the 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- ance is amended by the deletion of the words dwelling- houses in the locality at the end thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words "tenements in the locality, but not allowing any increase or anticipated increase in respect of taxation under the War Revenue Ordinance, 1940".
6. Sub-section (4) of section 3 of the principal Ordin- ance is amended-
(i) by the deletion of the word "dwelling-house" wher- ever it occurs and by the substitution therefor of the word
tenement";
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