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HONGKONG.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

STANDING LAW COMMITTEE,

on the

RENTS AMENDMENT BILL, 1921.

Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, 3rd November, 1921.

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Attorney General, (JOSEPH Horsford Kemp, K.C., C.B.E.) the Colonial Treasurer, (CHARLES MCILVAINE MESSER, O.B.E.).

Mr. HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK, K.C.

Mr. LAU CHU-PAK.

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ABSENT:

No.

12

1921

Mr. PEROY HOBSON HOLYOAK.

RENTS AMENDMENT BILL.-The Committee considered the bill intituled An Ordi- nance to amend the Rents Ordinance, 1921. They also considered certain suggestions forwarded by the Hongkong Law Society to the Attorney General under cover of letter dated the 27th October, 1921, certain criticisms put forward on behalf of the landlords, a suggestion to provide for the case of bankruptcy, and three additional draft clauses submitted by the Attorney General.

The Committee unanimously agreed to recommend that clauses 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the bill should be omitted, and that the three draft clauses submitted by the Attorney General should be inserted in the bill.

The three clauses in question are as follows:-

Notice to quit to bind sub-lessees in certain

cases.

7. Notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Ordinance or in this Ordinance, any bona fide notice to quit duly given by a lessor to a lessee in reliance on the provisions of paragraph (f) of subsec- tion (1) of section 4 of the principal Ordinance, as amended by section 2 of this Ordinance, or in reliance on such provisions and on the provisions of section 8 of this Ordinance, and given in accordance with the provisions of the said paragraph, so amended, shall operate so as to bind all sub-lessees deriving title directly or indirectly from the lessee to whom such notice shall have been given.