1988 Ed.]
Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation)
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(d) (Repealed 29 of 1983 s. 2)
(e) (Repealed 40 of 1984 s. 2)
(f) any particular portion of an 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;
(g) any premises for the time being vested in or in the custody of the Custodian of Property or the Custodian of Enemy Property;
(h) any lease or tenancy held directly from the Crown;
(Amended 13 of 1948 s. 3; 40 of 1984 s. 2)
(i) any premises which are, or since 4 May 1979 have been, business premises. (Replaced 40 of 1984 s. 2)
(2) In the event of any doubt or dispute as to whether any premises are excepted from the application of this Part by any of the provisions of subsection (1), the same may be determined by the Commissioner on the application of a landlord or tenant. (Amended 76 of 1981 s. 3)
(3) Where immediately before 23 May 1947, a tenant of premises to which this Part does not apply was entitled to protection against eviction by reason of an enactment repealed by this Part*, he shall be deemed to be holding at the rent payable immediately before 23 May 1947, and shall be entitled to such notice to quit as would have been required under the original contract of tenancy or if such notice had already been given and had expired at or before 23 May 1947 then to 1 month's notice.
(25 of 1947 s. 3 incorporated)
Power to exclude application of this Part
4. (1) The Governor may, in his absolute discretion and without the necessity of hearing any interested party, by order exclude from the further application of this Part any class of premises. (Replaced 40 of 1968 s. 3. Amended 72 of 1973 s. 2)
(2) The Tribunal may, in accordance with this section, make an order excluding any particular premises from the further application of this Part. (Replaced 76 of 1981 s. 4)
(3) Every order made under subsection (1) shall be published in the Gazette whereupon the tenant of any such premises shall be deemed to be holding at the rent payable immediately before the publication of such order and shall be entitled to such notice to quit as would have been required under the original contract of tenancy, or, if such notice has already been given and has expired, then to 1 month's notice expiring at the end of the calendar month next after the month in which such order was published: (Amended 76 of 1981 s. 4)
Provided that in the event of any notice having been given prior to such order being published nothing herein contained shall entitle a landlord to recover possession prior to the expiration of such notice. (Added 40 of 1968 s. 3)
* See s. 38 of the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance 1947 (25 of 1947).