Repeal of section 10.
Amendment
of section 13.
3.
Section to of the principal Ordinance is repealed.
Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of the number "ro" in the first line and the substitution therefor of the following-
Amendment
5.
of section 31.
"S".
Section 31 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) by the deletion of subsection (1) and the substitution
therefor of the following-
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(1) The Governor in Council may, in his absolute discretion and without the necessity of hearing any interested party, by order exclude from the further application of this Ordinance any pre- mises or any class of premises, and such order shall he published in the Gaselle. Upon such order being published in the Gasette, the tenant of any such premises shall be deemed to be holding at the rent payable immediately before the publication of such order and shall be entitled to sach notice to quit as would have been required under the original contract of tenancy, or, if such notice has already been given and has expired, then to one month's notice expiring at the end of the calendar month next after the month in which such order was published:
Provided that in the event of any notice having been given prior to such order being published nothing herein contained shall entitle a landlord to recover possession prior to the expiration of such notice.";
(aa) by the deletion in the second line of subsection (3) of the word "the" and the substitution therefor of the following-
"his immediate";
(b) by the deletion of subsection (6) and the substitution
therefor of the following-
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(6) A tenancy tribunal appointed to determine any application under this section after hearing such parties and considering such representations as a judge in chambers has directed shall be heard and
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may be put forward: respectively may in its absolute discretion decide to, spammend that the premises to which such application relates should be excluded, either, absolutely or subject to such conditions as the tribunal may think fir to: impose (including a condi- tion requiring the payment of compensation by the landlord. to any tenant), from the further application of this Ordinance, or to make no recommendation and shall in open.count give its decision and reasons therefor. In the event of the tenancy tribunal deciding to make a recommendation, the chairman of the tenancy tribunal shall forward in writing such recommendation. and the reasons therefor together with the papers and any record of the proceedings before the tenancy tribunal to the Clerk of Councils for the consideration of the Governor in Council";
(c) by the addition after subsection (6) of the following new
subsection-even
"(6A) (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 8 it shall be lawful for a landlord who has made an application under this section to enter into an agreement with: any tenant who in accordance with the provisions. of subsection: (4) opposes the landlord's application whereby, the tenant agrees to withdraw his opposition to such application subject to such terms as may be agreed between the landlord and the tenant :
Provided that no such agreement shall con- tain any term whereby the tenant agrees to quit His premises before an order excluding the said premises from the further application of this Ordinance has been published in the Gazette:
Provided further that if no order excluding the said premises from the further application of this Ordinance is made, the agreement shall be null and void:
Provided further that if an order excluding the said premises from the further application of this Ordinance is made, the agreement shall be enforceable only in so far as it is consistent with such order.