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No. 14 of 1922.
Power to exclude
Ordinance.
RENTS.
section 4 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.
24. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to operation of order that the provisions of this Ordinance, or any specified provision of this Ordinance, shall not apply in the case of any particular domestic tenement, if he thinks that the circumstances are sufficiently exceptional, and from the publication of such order in the Gazette the said provisions shall not apply to the said domestic tenement so long as such order remains unrevoked.
Notice given before the commence-
25. Every notice given before the commencement of this Ordinance which would have been valid under the provisions ment of this of the Rents Ordinances, 1921, and which would have been valid under the provisions of this Ordinance if given after the commencement of this Ordinance, shall be valid and effectual for all the purposes of this Ordinance.
Ordinance.
Repeal of Rents Ordinances, 1921, not to affect existing tenancies.
*
Lessor who gives an invalid reconstruc-tion notice to be liable
26. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 11 of the Rents Ordinance, 1921, and notwithstanding anything else contained in the Rents Ordinances, 1921, the repeal of the Rents Ordinances, 1921, shall not have the effect of determining any tenancy, and shall not operate so as to enable any lessor to recover possession of any domestic tenement except upon the conditions provided in this Ordinance.
[s. 27, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]
28. If any lessor of any domestic tenement gives to a lessee any notice to quit which purports or appears to be given under paragraph (f) of section 4 (1), but which fails in any respect to comply with the provisions of that paragraph, he shall upon summary conviction be liable to a penalty unless he can exceeding one thousand dollars, unless he proves that the failure to comply with the provisions of the said paragraph was due to a bona fide mistake and that he was acting bona fide throughout.
prove bona fides.
†
Penalty for
29. Every lessor who demands or receives more than the demanding or standard rent for any domestic tenement shall, unless he receiving proves to the satisfaction of the magistrate that he acted bona fide, be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
more than rent.
†
* s. 27 repealed the Rents Ordinances, 1921.
† As amended by No. 8 of 1923.