Amendment. of section 32.
Amendment
of section 33.
Increase ot rent of business premises.
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(4) No person lodging a petition or cross-petition as aforesaid shall be entitled to appear before the Governor in Council, but every petition and cross- petition lodged in due time shall be considered by the Governor in Council who may thereafter confirm. modify or reverse the decision appealed against,
(5) The decision of the Governor in Council shall be final.
(6) Where the decision of the Governor in Council is to the effect that the tribunal whose decision is appealed against ought to have recommended that certain premises be excluded from the further applica- Lion of this Ordinance, the decision of the Governor in Council shall be deemed to be a recommendation of a tenancy tribunal in relation to those premises for the purposes of subsection (2) of section 31.1
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22. Section 32 of the principal Ordinance is amended by being re-numbered subsection (1) of section 34, and by the addition thereto of the following new subsection-
(a) The provisions of subsection (1) shall not apply in respect of the service of any notice under section 3B, 3C, 3E or 13, but in such cases service shall be effected by posting the prescribed form of notice in English, together with a copy in Chinese, upon the main door or entrance of the premises affected, and by re-posting the same if necessary upon the second and third day thereafter, and upon the expiration of the third day such notice shall be deemed to have been served upon all persons including sub-tenants affected thereby."
23. Section 33 of the principal Ordinance is amended- (a) by the deletion from the last line of subsection (1) of the word "one" and the substitution therefor of the following-
"two":
(b) by the deletion from the second and third lines of sub- section (2) of the words "whether the defendant is convicted or not and".
24. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Ordinance, the landlord of business premises to which that Ordin- ance applies may, subject to the provisions of section 28, increase the rent lawfully chargeable therefor in the manner following, that is to say-
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(a) in respect of occupation on and after the 1st day of September, 1953, the rent lawfully chargeable may be increased by a sum equal to twenty-five per cent of the standard rent of the premises;
(b) in respect of occupation on and after the 1st day of March, 1954, the rent lawfully chargeable may be increased by a further sum equal to twenty-five per cont of the said standard rent.
(2) The rent lawfully chargeable for any business premises which has been increased in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) shall, with effect from the expiration of the period of notice mentioned in subsection (1) of section 28, be deemed to be the permitted rent of such premises for the purposes of the principal Ordinance.
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25. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Increase of Ordinance, the landlord of domestic premises to which that domestic Ordinance applies may, subject to the provisions of section 28, premises. increase the rent lawfully chargeable therefor in respect of occupation on and after the 1st day of March, 1954, by a sum equal to twenty-five per cent of the standard rent of the premises.
(2) The rent lawfully chargeable for any domestic premises which has been increased in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) shall, with effect from the expiration of the period of notice mentioned in subsection (1) of section 28, be deemed to be the permitted rent of such premises for the purposes of the principal Ordinance.
26. For the purposes of sections 24 and 25, the expression Inter- "rent lawfully chargeable" means—
pratation of "rent lawfully
24 and 25.
(a) in relation to the first increase of rent authorized by chargeable"
section 24 and the increase authorized by section 25, the in sections permitted rent chargeable under the principal Ordinance immediately before the provision authorizing such increase takes effect; and
(b) in relation to the further increase of rent nuthorized by section 24, the permitted rent chargeable under this and the principal Ordinance immediately before the provision authorizing such further increase takes effect,