Hong Kong Ordinances

LANDLORD AND TENANT (CONSOLIDATION) ORDINANCE - SECT 44A

Exercise of powers of Commissioner

(1) The Commissioner may, for the purposes of this Part-

   (a)  serve on any person a requisition in the specified form requiring him
        to furnish to the Commissioner, within such reasonable period as the
        Commissioner may specify in the form, the particulars reasonably
        required by the Commissioner by the requisition;

   (b)  require the landlord, tenant or sub-tenant or former landlord, tenant
        or sub-tenant of any premises to exhibit to him all documents relating
        to the tenancy and user of the premises, including leases, receipts
        for rent, rent-books and accounts, and the Commissioner may take
        copies of those documents;

   (c)  at any reasonable time, with the consent of the occupier, enter and
        inspect any premises and take such measurements and other particulars
        as he thinks fit;

   (d)  require the occupier or other person in control of the premises,
        following not less than 24 hours notice in writing delivered at the
        premises, to allow the Commissioner to enter and inspect those
        premises at any reasonable time and take such measurements and other
        particulars as he thinks fit;

   (e)  after the expiry of not less than 24 hours notice in writing to the
        occupier of the premises or, if the occupier cannot be found, to the
        landlord or other person in control of the premises, enter at any
        reasonable time during day-light (using such force as may be
        necessary) and inspect any premises and take such measurements and
        other particulars as he thinks fit.

(2) Any public officer or class of public officer employed in the Rating and
Valuation Department and authorized in writing in that behalf by the
Commissioner may exercise any of the powers and perform any of the duties
conferred or imposed on the Commissioner by this Part. (Replaced 40 of 1984 s.
12)