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Section 7: Seetion 12 of the principal Ordinance is hercby amended Amendmentas follows
Status not yet checkedThe Rent Restriction Short title (1961), Sierra Leone
(a) by the deletion of the word or " at the cnd of paragraph
(d) of subsection (1) thereof and the addition thereto of
the following proviso
Rent
books to
be provided
by land
lords.
Provided that whencver a landlord h£s obtained an
order or judgment for possession of any dwelling house
or shop the rental value of whiclh has been determined
on any of the grounds specificd hercin and the order or
judgment is exccutcd or the tenant voluntarily gives up
histenancy in conscquence of that order or judgment,
the landlord shall be guilty of an offence, if, without
first obtaining the permission of the Committee, he lets
the dwelling house or shop at any time; or if having
obtained such permission, he fails to comply with any
terms or conditions which the Committee may have
attached to that permission: and in either such case the
landlord shall on summary conviction be liable, for a
tirst offence, to afine not exceeding fifty pounds and in
default to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six
months, and, for a second or subsequent offence to a
fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprison
ment for a period not exceeding twelve months, and it
shall be left open to the tenant to re-occupy the said
dwelling house or shop; or
(b) by the addition immediately after paragraph (e) of
subsection (1) thereof of the following paragraph-..
(f) the landlord serves on the tenant notice in writing
that he is willing to grant to the tenant at such
rent and on such terms as a Committee may
consider reasonable a tenancy of other dwelling
house and in the case of a shop such other shop
as in the opinion of the Committee would
reasonably preserve to the tenant the goodwill
of his business."
of section 12
A201
1953.NO 19 O
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