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Provided that a covenant to yield up possession on a specified date shall be construed as a covenant to yield up possession on such later date as may be necessary to permit the giving of notice of termination as required by this Part. (14 of 1962 s. 6 incorporated)

Tribunal may determine disputes

127A. The Tribunal on the application of a landlord, tenant or sub-tenant may- (Amended 76 of 1981 s. 57)

(a) entertain and determine any dispute or difference which may arise under this Part between a landlord and a tenant, or a tenant and a sub-tenant, or any of them, including any dispute as to the rent that is payable for, or the right to possession of, any premises; (Amended 32 of 1985 s. 24)

(b) apportion any rent which becomes payable under section 124C(1);

(c) entertain and determine concurrently with any other application, any application for the payment of rent or mesne profits of any premises to which this Part applies,

and make such order thereon, subject to section 127B, as the Tribunal shall think fit.

(Added 39 of 1979 s. 24)

Sub-tenants not to have greater security than

tenants

127B. Nothing in this Part shall afford to any sub-tenant any security of tenure greater than that enjoyed by his principal tenant.

(Added 39 of 1979 s. 24)

Interpretation

PART VI

SMALL TENEMENTS RECOVERY

128. In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires-

"agent" includes any person usually employed by the owner in the management of his property, or in the letting of the premises, or in the collection of the rents thereof, or specially authorized to act in the particular matter by writing under the hand of such owner;

"Collector of Rates" has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Rating Ordinance (Cap.116); (Added 37 of 1986 s. 7)

"house" includes a matshed or other structure;

"owner" means the person entitled to the immediate reversion or, in cases within section 132, to the possession of the premises, or, if the property is held in joint tenancy or tenancy in common, means any one of the persons entitled to such reversion or possession;