CAP. 261]
44 of 1948.
Rent (War Period) Relief.
CHAPTER 261.
RENT (WAR PERIOD) RELIEF.
To relieve tenants from payment of rent in respect of the period of Japanese occupation and to adjust the rights of landlords and tenants.
[27th August, 1948.]
Short title.
Interpretation.
Rent during the war period irrecoverable, save as hereinafter provided.
Provision for payment of rent in certain cases.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Rent (War Period) Relief Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance--
"landlord" and "tenant" shall include their respective executors, administrators and assigns;
"premises" means the premises subject to a tenancy whether such tenancy was for domestic, office, professional, business, trade or other purposes and includes a pier or wharf;
"tenant" includes the Crown, a sub-tenant and a statutory tenant but does not include any person holding directly from the Crown;
"war period" means the period commencing with the 8th day of December, 1941, and ending with the 16th day of September, 1945.
3. Save as hereinafter expressly provided—
(a) all claims for payment of rent payable for any premises in respect of any period comprised in the war period shall be deemed to have been waived;
(b) no court shall entertain any such claim whether the same be advanced by way of claim, counter-claim or set-off or howsoever the same may be advanced.
4. (1) It is hereby declared that section 3 shall not apply--
(a) to any rent actually paid to or received by a landlord or his agent;
(b) to any rent or other consideration paid or due in pursuance of any agreement arrived at between landlord and tenant by way of settlement of claims by the landlord for the rent of any premises in respect of the war period or part thereof.
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