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be either a member of the Colonial legal service or a barrister or solicitor of not less than five years standing, and of two members of the tenancy tribunal panel appointed under paragraph (a) of section 30.";
(c) by the insertion in the seventh line of subsection (6) after
the word "excluded" of the following-
"either absolutely or subject to such conditions (being conditions not repugnant to any of the provi- sions of this Ordinance) as the tribunal may think fit to impose," :
(d) by the deletion from the second and third lines of sub- section (7) of the words “Such costs shall be allowable as would be granted în an action before the court.";
(e) by the addition of the following new subsections-
"(9) (a) Whenever a tenancy tribunal has recommended that exclusion from the operation of this Ordinance shall be subject to conditions, the Governor in Council may-
(1) reject the recommendation;
(ii) accept the recommendation but delete or modify the conditions or insert new conditions (being conditions not repugnant to any of the provisions of this Ordinance) : Provided that save where
the Governor in Council proposes to make an order to exclude any premises unconditionally, The Governor in Council shall not proceed to make an order under this section until such notice as is hereinafter provided for has been given and shall not in any event make such order if the application for exclusion is withdrawn as is hereinafter mentioned.
(b) The notice mentioned by paragraph (a) shall be a notice to the applicant of the order which the Governor in Council proposes to make and requiring him within fourteen days after the day upon which such notice was given to inform the Clerk of Councils whether he wishes to maintain or withdraw his application.
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(c) It shall be lawful for the applicant within the period of fourteen days aforesaid to withdraw his application by notice in that behalf to the Clerk of Councils.
(10) Any conditions contained in an order of the Governor in Council made after the provisions of paragraph (2) of subsection (9) have been complied with may be enforced by any party aggrieved by the non-performance thereof in like manner as if the performance of the condition had lawfully been ordered by the Supreme Court. For the purpose of this section, the Attorney General shall represent the public and shall be deemed to be a party aggrieved.
(11) Where any class of premises has been excluded from the further application of this Ordin- ance by an order made under subsection (1), a tenancy tribunal shall have jurisdiction to determine whether any particular premises fall within such class and in so doing shall be guided by the primary user of such premises."
21. The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition after Addition of section 31 of the following new section-
"Appeals
in proceed-
31A. (1) Any party aggrieved by the decision of a ings ander tenancy tribunal in any proceedings under section 31 section 31. may, within fourteen days after the decision has been communicated to him, appeal therefrom by way of petition to the Governor in Council.
(2) A person appealing to the Governor in Council under the provisions of subsection (1) shall, within the said period of fourteen days, serve a cupy of the petition upon each of the other parties to the proceedings wherein the decision appealed from was given, and each of the other parties may, within twenty-eight days after the decision of the tribunal has been communicated to him, cross-petition the Governor in Council, and in such event shall serve a copy of such cross-petition upon the appellant,
(3) Every petition and cross-petition shall be lodged with the Clerk of Councils.
new
section 31A.
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