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HONGKONG.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
STANDING LAW COMMITTEE,
on the
RENTS AMENDMENT BILL, 1925.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, 4th June, 1925.
No. 10
1925
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Attorney General (Sir HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK, K.C.)
the Colonial Treasurer (CHARLES MCILVAINE MESSER, O.B.E.).
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Mr. PERCY HOBSON HOLYOAK.
Mr. ROBERT HORMUS KOTEWALL.
Mr. CHARLES GRENVILLE ALABASTER, K.C., O.B.E., was also present by
request.
RENTS AMENDMENT BILL.-The Committee considered clause 3 of the Bill entitled an Ordinance to amend further the Rents Ordinance, 1922, and unanimously agreed to recommend that the proposed new section 34. of the principal Ordinance, set out in clause 3 of the Bill, should be amended as follows:-
(1) By substituting a comma for a full stop at the end of the said section 3.1, and (2) By adding the following at the end of the said section 3a, namely:--
"and nothing in this section shall entitle any intermediate lessor to increase the rent payable by his own lessee by a greater percentage than the percentage which has been demanded from such lessor by his immediate lessor.
Any notice of intention to increase the rent as aforesaid may be treated by the lessee to whom the notice is given as a notice to quit on the date of the expiration of such notice, and the lessee may quit the domestic tenement in question on that date without giving any notice whatever to the lessor."
H. E. POLLOCK,
Laid before the Legislative Council this 4th day of June, 1925.
Chairman.
A. G. M. FLETCHER,
Clerk of Councils.