Rent (War Period) Relief.

(2) Section 3 shall not apply to any tenancy in respect of which the tenant, after the commencement of this Ordinance, makes a claim against the landlord for breach of the covenants on the landlord's part, express or implied, occurring during the war period: Provided that section 3 shall nevertheless apply if in the case of a breach occurring during the war period but continuing thereafter the claim is limited to breaches continuing subsequent to the war period.

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to landlord

tenant's

stored on

ultimately restored.

5. Where, by virtue of the law which would be applicable if this Ordinance had not been passed, a landlord would have been entitled to claim rent against a tenant, and property belonging to the tenant remained on the premises and was subsequently restored to the tenant by or on behalf of the landlord, there shall be payable to the landlord, by the tenant, such a sum as will fairly compensate the landlord for suffering such property to remain on the premises and for his care thereof and for any expenses incurred in preserving the same.

Submission default of

of claim, in

agreement, to

6. The compensation referred to in the preceding section shall, in default of agreement, be ascertained by submission to the arbitration of two arbitrators, one to be appointed by arbitration. either party, and rules 2 to 13 of Order XXV of the Code of (Cap. 4, rules.) Civil Procedure shall apply to any such submission in like manner as if this section were a written agreement by the parties to submit their differences to arbitration.

7. The Crown shall be entitled to the benefit of this Ordinance.

Crown

entitled to

Ordinance.

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