Hong Kong Ordinances

LANDLORD AND TENANT (CONSOLIDATION) ORDINANCE - SECT 14

Postponement of permitted increase where repairs effected by tenant

If the tenant of any premises has since 16 August 1945, with the consent of
the landlord of such premises, effected repairs thereto which were necessary
to render the said premises reasonably habitable and the sum expended by such
tenant has amounted to the equivalent of not less than the standard rent of
such premises for a period of 6 months, that portion of the rent permitted
under section 10(1) which exceeds the standard rent shall not commence to
accrue or become payable or recoverable until such time as the amount thereof
would, but for this provision, have been equal to one-half of the amount
expended by the tenant on such repairs.

(25 of 1947 s. 7 incorporated. Amended 39 of 1979 s. 11)