CO129-602-1 General orders relating to government quarters and rent allowance 6-8-1946 - 17-2-1947 — Page 53

tax sh...uld full upon the landlord, rather than the

tonant.

These provisions, while not directly restricting rent did ensure that it could not rise beyond a reasonable point, and the regulations wore to continue

until the 1st June, 1342.

after the liberation of the Colony Proclamation

jo. 15, Landlord and Tenant, was published in the

Gazette dated uctober 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.

Article 4 provides that Tonancy Tribunals (which

are appointed under Article 7) shall have power to

vary, fix or apportion any rent.

The foregoing provisions of roclamation lio.15

have now been incorporated into the aw of the Colony

by the Law Amendment (Transitional Provisions) act,

10.2 of 1946, which was passed on the resumption of

Civil Government, and under which they "shall have

effect as if they had boe.. contained in ordinances

enacted by the Legislature of the Colony."

The latest information we have from H ng Kong on

this subject is contained in paragraplı 8 of a state mont

of Government's Housing Jolicy, forwarded under

cover of a despatch dated 18th August, 1946; the

para:raph reads:- "The Government agrees generally

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/with