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this proviso being added to ensure that the property
tax should fall upon the landlord, rather than the
tenant.
These provisions, while not directly restricting
rent did ensure that it could not rise beyond a
reasonable point, and the regulations were to continue
until the 1st June, 1942.
After the liberation of the Colony Proclamation
(copy attached) No. 15, Landlord and Tenant, was published in the
Gazette dated October 31st 1945, and under Article
2:"a) No landlord shall, in respect of any premises,
receive by way of rent or other consideration, any
sum or consideration at a rate in excess of the last
payment of rent reserved to him or his predecessor in
title in respect of the same premises for a similar
period prior to December 1941, and (b) No sub-tenant
shall be liable to pay a rent in excess of such
part of the rent payable by the Principal Tenant as is
fairly attributable to the Premises occupied by such
sub-tenant, plus 20%."
one copy only- available in Legal Library.
Article 4 provides that Tenancy Tribunals (which
are appointed under Article 7) shall have power to
vary, fix or apportion any rent.
The foregoing provisions of Proclamation No.15
have now been incorporated into the Law of the Colony
by the Law Amendment (Transitional Provisions) Act,
No.2 of 1946, which was passed on the resumption of
Civil Government, and under which they "shall have
effect as if they had been contained in Ordinances
enacted by the Legislature of the Colony."
The latest information we have from Hong Kong on
this subject is contained in paragraph 8 of a Statement o
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