Landlord and Tenant.
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"tenant" does not include a Crown lessee but includes a 13 of 1948, s. 2.
sub-tenant and includes also----
(a) a person who before the coming into force of this Ordinance has retained possession of premises by virtue of any enactment repealed by this Ordinance and who on the coming into force of this Ordinance is in possession of premises, to which this Ordinance applies;
(b) a person who shall retain possession of any premises
by virtue of the provisions of this Ordinance; (c) the widow of a tenant, residing with the tenant at the time of his death or where the tenant leaves no widow or is a woman, the children or dependent members of the tenant's family residing with him or her at the time of the tenant's death.
Schedule,
"tribunal" or "tenancy tribunal" means a tenancy tribunal 24 of 1950,
authorized by the Chief Justice or his delegate under subsection (1) of section 28;
Application
of Ordinance.
13 of 1948, s. 3.
3. (1) This Ordinance shall not apply to—
(a) any entirely new building in respect of which the written permit of the building authority to occupy the same shall have been granted under the provisions of section 137 of the Buildings Ordinance, (Cap.123.) after the 16th day of August, 1945; or
(b) any premises which after the 16th day of August,
1945, have remained continuously untenanted and 13 of 1948, s. 3. which after the coming into force of this Ordinance have been rendered habitable by extensive repairs effected at the expense of the landlord. For the purpose of this paragraph the expression extensive repairs means repairs wholly necessary for rendering the premises reasonably habitable and in respect of which expense incurred amounts to not less than the equivalent to the standard rent of the premises for seven years; or
(c) any business premises which may after the 1st day of February, 1947, be let for a term of not less than seven years; or
(d) any particular portion of any hotel or boarding-house which is let furnished by the keeper of such hotel or boarding-house to a guest of such hotel or boarding-house; or
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