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Addition

of new section 4A.

of two months shall be extended if necessary to enable notice in the prescribed form to operate as a notice to quit under the contractual tenancy, which such notice shall in such case be deemed to be.

(2) Upon the expiration of the prescribed period the person who is in law or in equity the lessee of the Crown shall be entitled to vacant possession of the premises to which the re-building certificate relates in like manner and with the like remedies as if an order for possession thereof had been made under section 18, and the provisions of section 24 shall apply upon production of the re-building certificate and of a staru- tory declaration that the provisions of subsection (1) have been complied with, in like manner as they apply upon production of a copy of an order of a tribunal under section 24."

5. The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition after section 4 of the following new section-

**Evidence

of standard rent.

4A. (1) The landlord or tenant of any premises to which this Ordinance applies and which are situate on the island of Hong Kong or in Kowloon or New Kowloon may apply to the Commissioner of Rating and Valuation for assessment of the standard rent of such premises.

(2) The application shall be on a form prescribed by the Governor in Council by order and the fee pay- able for the assessment shall be such as the Governor In Council may by order prescribe.

(3) A certificate given pursuant to the provisions of this section under the hand of an officer of the Rating and Valuation Department not below the rank of Rating and Valuation Surveyor of his assessment of the standard rent of premises described therein shall be prima facie evidence of such standard rent in any legal proceedings whatsoever, whether civil ar criminal."

of section

8. Section 6 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the Amendment deletion from the seventh line of subsection (3) of the word & "eight" and the substitution therefor of the following—

"twelve".

7. The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition Addition after section 6 of the following new suctions-

"Rent lawfully

6A. The rent lawfully chargeable by a principal chargeable tenant in respect of any dependent domestic premises shall not exceed a sum of money equal to the aggre- dependent domestic

gate of the following sums- premises.

for

Landlord may enter and affect necessary repairs.

(a) the standard rent of the premises calculated

in accordance with the provisions contained

in the definition of the expression "standard rent" in section 2; and

(6) a sum equal to thirty per cent of that

standard rent; and

(c) any increase of that standard rent authorized

by or under this or any other Ordinance.

6B. (1) It shall be lawful for a landlord and his servants and agents-

(a) at all reasonable times, to enter and inspect the premises the subject of the tenancy with a view to ascertaining whether they require any necessary repairs; and

(b) alter service upon the tenant of fourteen days notice in writing of intention so to do, to enter upon the premises the subject of the tenancy and effect all necessary repairs.

(2) For the purposes of this section, "necessary repairs" means any repairs which the tenant would be required to perform were he under covenant with the landlord to keep the premises in a tenantable state of repair.

of new sections BA and 88.