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Amendment of section 7.

Addition of Dew sections 14A. 149 and 140.

3. Section 7 of the principal Ordinance is amended in subsection (3) by deleting "displayed" and substituting the Following--

"posted".

4. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 14, the following-

"Further increases

in rent.

14A. (1) Where the rent of a tenancy has been increased under section 9 or section 11, a landlord may further increase the rent by an amount not exceeding five per cent of the rent.

(2) An increase in the rent of a tenancy under subsection (1) shall not take effect before the expira- tion of a period of two years from the date on which any increase in the rent of that tenancy under section 9 or section 11 became effective.

(3) Where the rent of a tenancy has been further increased under subsection (1), a landlord may, subject to subsection (4), further increase the rent by an amount not exceeding five per cent of the rent.

(4) An increase in the rent of a tenancy under subsection (3) shall not take effect before the expira- tion of a period of one year from the date on which any increase in the rent of that tenancy under sub- section (1) became effective.

(5) Where a landlord has increased the rent of a tenancy under subsection (3). no further increase in the rent of that tenancy may be made under this section.

(6) Where the rent of a tenancy has been in- creased under section 9 or section 11 and further increased under subsection (1), no order shall be made for the recovery of any increased rent or for the recovery of possession for non-payment thereof unless the landlord satisfies the court that two years have or will have elapsed between the date on which the first increase became effective and the date on which the further increase under subsection (1) takes effect.

(7) Where the rent of a tenancy has been in- creased under subsection (1) and further increased

HONG KONG

No. 5 of 1972

I assent.

M.

Governor.

10th February, 1972.

An Ordinance to authorize a supplementary appropriation to defray the charges of the financial year ended the 31st day of March 1971.

[13th February, 1972.] WHEREAS il bas become necessary to make further provision for the public service of the Colony for the financial year ended the 31st day of March 1971, in addition to the charge upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony authorized by the Appropriation Ordinance 1970:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-

从

Preamble,

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Supplementary Short title. Appropriation (1970-71) Ordinance 1972.

2. A sum of one hundred and thirteen million, six hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and forty dollars is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the financial year ended the 31st day of March 1971, the appropriation of the sum so charged being approved as specified in the Schedule.

Appropriation from general revenue and other funds.

Schedule.