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Court may revise the rent in certain cases.
No. 14 of 1922.
RENTS.
shall have been paid to the Treasurer before the making of such reduction, the Treasurer shall refund the sum by which the amount of the rates payable under the former valuation exceeds the amount of the rates payable under the reduced valuation.
13. If the rent recoverable from the tenant in actual occupation of any domestic tenement on the 31st day of December, 1920, either (a) was a rent which had been agreed upon in writing at some date before the 1st day of January, 1918, or (b) was not higher than the rent recoverable from the tenant in actual occupation on the 1st day of January, 1918, it shall be lawful for the lessor of such tenement to apply to the court to fix such other rent than the standard rent as the court shall think fit as the rent to be paid in respect of such tenement during the continuance of this Ordinance. Provided that nothing in this section shall affect any rent which became due before the commencement of this Ordinance, and provided that nothing in this section shall entitle any lessor, during the currency of any written lease of any domestic tenement for a definite and unexpired term, to any rent higher than the rent reserved in such lease.
Court may increase rent in case of certain rateable improvements.
14. In case a lessor of any domestic tenement has expended or shall expend after the 31st day of December, 1920, the sum of five hundred dollars or upwards on additions or improvements thereto by which in the opinion of the court the rateable value thereof shall have been or shall be increased, the court may on application by the lessor for such purpose order that the rent of such tenement shall be increased beyond the standard rent by an annual sum equal to eight per cent. on the amount so expended by the lessor on such additions or improvements: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect any rent which became due before the commencement of this Ordinance.
Sub-lessees to become tenants of the lessor in certain cases.
15. Where the interest of the lessee of a domestic tenement is determined, either as the result of an order or judgment for possession or ejectment, or for any other reason, any sub-lessee to whom the domestic tenement or any part thereof shall have been lawfully sub-let, shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, be deemed to become the tenant of the lessor on the same terms as he would have held from the lessee if the tenancy had continued.
10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 17, s. 15 (3).