Notice to quit
given by vendor to enure for benefit of
purchaser in certain cases.
Ordinance
No. 1 of 1903.
Bankruptcy of lessee.
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8. If the owner of any domestic tenement agrees to sell such domestic tenement to a purchaser who bona fide intends forthwith to pull down such domestic tenement or to reconstruct such domestic tenement to such an extent as to make such domestic tenement a new building within the meaning of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, and if such owner agrees with such purchaser to give the necessary notices to quit, any notice to quit given by such owner in pursuance of such agreement shall enure for the benefit of such purchaser as if such purchaser had been the owner at the time when such notice to quit was given and had given such notice to quit, provided that nothing in this section shall relieve such owner from the obligation to state in writing at the time of giving such notice to quit whether such purchaser intends to pull down such domestic tenement or to reconstruct such domestic tenement, and in the latter case to state the exact nature of the reconstruction intended, and provided also that notwithstanding anything in this section the lessee shall have, in addition to any remedies which he may have against such owner, such remedies against such purchaser as he would have had if such notice to quit had been given by such purchaser.
9. If the lessee of any domestic tenement is adjudged bankrupt neither the said lessee nor his trustee in bankruptcy shall be entitled to claim any right or benefit under section 4 of the principal Ordi- nance in respect of the said domestic tenement by virtue of the tenancy, whether contractual or statutory, under which the said lessee held immediately before the making of the adjudication order.
The Committee then adjourned sine die.
J. H. KEMP,
Chairman.
Laid before the Legislative Council this 3rd day of November, 1921.
S. B. B. McELDERRY,
Clerk of Councils.