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Supplementary to Question No. 8 in the

Legislative Council on 1 May 1985

Mrs. CHOW

Can the Secretary for Housing pleased give us an indication as to

the number of cases where the tenant and the authority failed to

agree on a rent renewal, say in the last six months, and how many

of these are subsequently rented out to new tenants at a rent level lower than that offered by the Authority to the old tenant and will

to there be a review on this practice which appears to be unfair the

人 original tenant ?

Secretary for Housing :- Sir, over the last period of six months, that is, during

the period running up to the present day, 112 commercial tenancies gave notice to quit, 90 of these were during the initial tenancy

and 10 only were on renewal and 32 during subseqent tenancies.. As far as the rental procedures are concerned new rents are tendered on

a basis of a tendered rental and therefore the rental which is set will

depend upon the tender which is received. This will very rarely be less than the figure which was offered to outgoing the tenant .