Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance

(1)
Every principal tenant shall affix and shall keep affixed on a conspicuous part of the premises comprised in his principal tenancy a notice in Form 1 in the
Second Schedule
stating the rent payable by him to his landlord and shall give to each sub-tenant notice in writing of the part of such rent which he attributes to the premises let to such sub-tenant.
(2)
Every principal tenant shall, whether the same shall be demanded or not, give to each sub-tenant at the time of his paying the same a receipt for the amount of the rent paid and such receipt shall state the period in respect of which such rent was payable.
(3)
Every principal tenant shall, within 1 month after becoming a principal tenant, furnish to his landlord a full and true statement showing the name of all the sub-tenants of such principal tenant with sufficient particulars of the parts of the premises occupied by and of the standard rent and gross rent payable by and of the date of first occupation by each of them.
(Amended
11 of 1954 s. 3
)
(4)
A principal tenant who fails to comply with any of the provisions of
                subsections (1), (2) and (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on
                summary conviction to a fine
                at
                level 1.
(Amended
22 of 1953 s. 10
;
E.R. 4 of
                    2020
)
(5)
Upon the hearing of any summons issued under this section, it shall be lawful for a magistrate, in addition to imposing a fine if the defendant is convicted, to order the eviction of the defendant.
(Amended
22 of 1953 s. 10
)
(6)
Where a principal tenant is evicted under the provisions of this section or of
section 15
, the
sub-
tenants of such principal tenant shall be deemed to be and shall thereafter be tenants of the immediate landlord of such principal tenant and shall be deemed to hold their respective premises upon the terms and conditions upon which they held them from the principal
tenant:
Provided that such immediate landlord shall be entitled to demand or receive from such sub-tenant only such rent as he would have been entitled to demand or receive if the tenancy of the principal tenant had been terminated under the provisions of
section 21
and shall undertake towards the sub-tenants all those obligations formerly undertaken by the principal tenant.
(7)
It shall be the duty of the immediate landlord of the principal tenant to
                ensure that the provisions of subsection (1) are complied with, and an immediate
                landlord who fails without reasonable excuse (the burden of proving which shall be
                upon him) to ensure that the said provisions are complied with shall be guilty of an
                offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine
                at
                level 1.
(Added
22 of 1953 s. 10
. Amended
E.R. 4 of
                    2020
)