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HONG KONG

No. 25 or 1947.

I assent.

Officer Administering the Government.

23rd May, 1947.

An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to

the restriction of rents.

[23rd May, 1947.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as

follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Landlord and Short titka. Tenant Ordinance, 1947.

2. In this Ordinance--

(a) **Business premises" includes every cubicle, room, portion of a floor, floor or building which is the subject of a separate letting and which is used wholly or primarily for the purpose of any trade, business or profession and every hotel or boarding-house whether euch hotel or boarding-house is held by the keeper thereof under one lease or under more than one lease or is contained in one building or more than one building,

(b) "Court" means the Supreme Court in its Summary Jurisdiction.

(e) "Dependent premises" means premises which are the subject of a separate letting and which are not self- contained in respect of ablution, privy and cooking facilities.

(d) "Domestic premises" includes every bed-space, cubicle, room, portion of a floor, floor or building which is the subject of a separate letting and which is used wholly or primarily for human habitation: Provided that the following shall not be deemed to be domestic premises within the meaning of this definition:

(3) any building or portion of a building which is used for habitation only by caretakers or watchmen not exceeding two in number;

(ii) any building or portion of a building which is used for habitation only by office attendants or their families;

(ii) any particular portion of any hotel or boarding- house which is let by the keeper of such hotel or boarding-house to a guest of such hotel or boarding-

house.

Interprote

tion.