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LANDLORD AND TENANT ORDINANCE. (Chapter 255).

LANDLORD AND TENANT ORDINANCE (APPLICATION IN NEW TERRITORIES) ORDER, 1954-

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance the Governor in Council has made the following Order-

1. This Order may be cited as the Landlord and Tenant Citation. Ordinance (Application in New Territories) Order, 1954-

2. Any entirely new building in the New Territories com- Exemption pleted after the 16th day of August, 1945, which, had it been of new

buildings built in Hong Kong, Kowloon or New Kowloon, would have in New required the written permit of the Building Authority before being Territories. occupied shall be excluded from the further application of this Ordinance.

Deputy Chat Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

14th September. 1954-

Explanatory Note.

(This Node is not part of the Order but is intended to indicate ite general purport).

In section 3 it is provided that the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance shall not apply to "any entirely new building in respect of which the written permit of the Building Authority to occupy the same shall have been granted under the provisions of section 137 of the Buildings Ordinance, after the 18th day of August, 1945". Since section 137 of the Buildings Ordinance does not apply to the New Territories new buildings there are not excluded. It is considered that the intention of the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance was to exclude from its application all new buildings. This Order therefore places new buildings in the New Territories on the same foating as new buildings elsewhere in the Calony.

(Secretariat L/M 3556/54)