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Addition of

new section

SA

2

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

**Covenant

to pay rent to be implied.

SA. In the absence of any express covenant for the payment of rent and condition for forfeiture, there shall be implied in every tenancy a covenant to pay the rent on the due date and a condition for forfeiture for non-payment within fifteen days of the due date.”.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 28th day of July, 1965, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

HONG KONG

No. 38 of 1965.

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

(Secretarial CR2/2321/62)

IL

[ assent

French.

26th August, 1965.

An Ordinance further to amend the District Court Ordinance 1953.

[27th August, 1965.]

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

1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the District Court Short title (Amendment) Ordinance 1965,

(2) Section 2 shall be deemed to have had effect as from the 1st

day of October 1954.

and co-

Bergeevent.

2.

Section 5 of the District Court Ordinance 1953 (hereinafter Amendment referred to as the principal Ordinance) is amended-

of section 5.

(1 of 1933).

(a) by the deletion of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) and the sub-

stitution therefor of the following-

*(b) since becoming so qualified he has for a period

of or periods totalling not less than five years-

( practised as an advocate or solicitor in such a court; or