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3.
Ordinance No. 30 of 1921 is absorbed into section 2 of
A better arrangement of the sec-
Ordinance No. 13 of 1921.
tion of Ordinances Nos. 13 and 25 of 1921 could have been made, but for convenience the sections of each of these two Ordinances have been kept together in the present Ordinance.
Sections
1 to 14, and sections 16 and 17, represent Ordinance No. 13 of 1921, sections 18 to 23 represent sections 4 to 9 of Ordinance No. 25 of 1921, and sections 15, and 24 to 27, are new. Sections 1, 2 and 3 of Ordinance No. 25 of 1921 disappear as they are absorbed into other sections. Section 15 of Ordinance No. 13
of 1921 disappears.
4. Some of the alterations of the terms of the previous Ordi- mances may be described as drafting alterations. Examples are
to be found in sections 1, 2(6) (11), 4(1) (a), 4(2), 9(2), 16(3), 17, 18(2), 25, 26, and 27.
E.
In section 2(b) (iv) the words or furnished flat" have been They were omitted inadvertently in the principal
added.
Ordinance.
Apparently no one has ever noticed this omission, and it has been universally acsumed that furnished flats as well
ae furnished houses were excluded from the Rents Ordinances.
6.
Section 4(1) (f) has been strengthened by a proviso which
is aimed at mala fide action by the lessor. This is no exten-
sion of the principle of the legislation but is merely intended
to ensure that its object shall be carried out.
7.
Section 15 of Ordinance No. 13 of 1921 was intended to
prevent a lessee who did not occupy from claiming the protection
of the Ordinance.
It is doubtful if it added anything to the
other sections of the Ordinance, and it does not seem ever to