tenement, and there is no separate annual rent or value for Such part, the annual rent or value of the whole tenement shall be divided by the number of occupiers of the tenement at the date on which notice to quit is given, and the annual rent or value of the tenement or the part thereof, for the purpose of determining the jurisdiction of the District Court in relation to such action, shall be taken as the quotient ascertained by such division.
(*) For the purposes of this paragraph, "occupier** means a person who has contracted for or otherwise arranged for the occupation of the tenement or of part thereof with the owner thereof, but shall not include members of the family of such person or his dependants or his domestic servants.
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Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 19th day of December, 1956.
(Secretariat 20/3231/52)
Buimper...
Deputy Crk of Councils.
HONG KONG
No. Go or 1956.
Lassent.
Mhan
20th December, 1956.
An Ordinance to validate the payment and receipt of pilotage dues in excess of the scale in force prior to the coming into operation of the Pilots (Amendment) Regulations, 1956.
[21st December, 1956.]
WHEREAS by section 21 of the Pilots Ordinance it is provided that a licensed pilot shall not demand or receive and a master of a ship shall not offer or pay to any licensed pilot, dues in respect of pilotage services at any other rates whether greater or less than the rates which may be demanded by law;
AND WHEREAS by subsection (1) of section 27 of the said Ordinance it is an offence for any person to contravene any of the provisions of the said Ordinance:
AND WHEREAS after the re-occupation of the Colony it became the established practice for masters of ships to pay and licensed pilots to receive pilotage dues of double the amount prescribed by the Pilots Regulations :