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which he would, in the opinion of the court, be seriously prejudiced if he could not obtain possession; or
(e) the domestic tenement is reasonably required by the lessor for occupation as a residence for himself or for his family, or for any person bona fide residing or to reside with him, or for some person in his whole time employment or in the whole time employment of some tenant from him, and the court is satisfied that alternative accommodation, reasonably equivalent as regards rent and suitability in all respects, is available; or
(f) the lessor bona fide requires possession of the domestic tenement in order 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 shall have given the lessee three months' notice to quit, stating in writing the exact nature of the reconstruction intended, and shall, prior to the giving of any such notice, have obtained a certificate from the Building Authority (a copy of which certificate shall be attached to such notice) to the effect that such intended reconstruction would have the effect of making such domestic tenement a new building within the meaning of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903: Provided that if the lessor fails to begin the work of reconstruction within one month after the lessee shall have given up to the lessor possession of the domestic tenement, or shall fail to carry out the said work with reasonable expedition, the lessor shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed for the purpose of section 20 to have, in giving such notice, done an act mala fide with intent to induce the lessee to give up possession.
(2) If but for this Ordinance, or but for the Rents Ordinances, 1921, any tenancy would have expired by effluxion of time, or by reason of a notice to quit, or for any other reason, so that the tenancy is preserved only by reason of this Ordinance, or by reason of the Rents Ordinances, 1921, and this Ordinance, the terms of the tenancy so preserved, except as they may be modified by this Ordinance, and except as to the agreed period of tenancy, shall be as far as possible the same as the terms of the tenancy as it existed immediately before the time at which, but for this Ordinance, or but for the Rents Ordinances, 1921, the tenancy would have expired.