Amendment
of section
11.
Amendment
of section 12.
Amendment
of section 18.
Amendment
of section
29 of the
Landlord
and
Tebant
(Amand- ment)
Ordinance,
1953, and effect thereof. (Appendix
to the 1952
Reprint).
"such building covenant should be complied with and that such person should be given vacant possession of the premises".
3. Subsection (3) of section 11 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the insertion in the eighth line after the words "payable by" of the following words--
"and of the date of first occupation by".
4. Paragraph (b) of subsection (s) of section ra of the principal Ordinance is amended by the insertion after the letter (b) of the following words-
"where the premises are dependent domestic premises,
5. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 18 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion from the first line of the following words-e
"of domestic premises'',
6. (1) Section 29 of the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Ordinance, 1953, is amended in the following respects-
(a) by the deletion from the fifth line of subsection (1) of the words "fourteen days" and by the substitution therefor of the following-
"two months";
(b) by the substitution of a comma for the full stop at the end of subsection (1), and by the addition thereafter of the following words-
"'or after be has affixed such certificate or a copy of such certificate on a conspicuous part of the premises comprised in his principal tenancy and he has to the best of his ability kept such certificate or copy so affixed for a period of not less than seven consecutive days."'
(2) The amendment to subsection (1) of section 29 of the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Ordinance, 1953, made by paragraph (z) of subsection (1) of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have had effect as from the 17th day of July, 1953 (being the
date of commencement of the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Ordinance, 1953), and any decision of a tenancy tribunal given between the 17th day of July, 1953, and the commencement of this Ordinance, may be reviewed by the tribunal either of its own motion or on the application of any party to the proceedings in which the decision was given within two months after the commencement of this Ordinance, if the tribunal is of opinion that the decision should be reviewed in consequence of the amendment aforesaid.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 7th day of April, 1954.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
(Secretariat 9/741/52V1)