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Rent Restriction (Amendment) Act (No. 12 of 1966) - Sect 5

Replacement of section 12 of the principal Act. [ 5, 10 of 1961.] [ 2, 2 of 1964.]

5. Section 12 of the principal Act is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-
12.
(1) The tenant of any premises to which this Act applies may pay the rent of those premises to the authorized person instead of the landlord.
(2) Where any payment of rent of any premises is made on any day in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1), it shall be deemed to be a payment received on that day by the landlord of those premises from the tenant thereof.
(3) Where the rent of any premises is paid to the authorized person, the authorized person shall issue to the tenant of those premises a receipt in acknowledgment of such payment, and shall, transmit the amount of such payment to the landlord of those premises. It shall be the duty of such landlord to issue to the authorized person a receipt in acknowledgment of the amount so transmitted to him.
(4) In this section, "authorized person ", with reference to any premises, means the Mayor or Chairman of the local authority within whose administrative limits those premises are situated or the person authorized in Wilting by such Mayor or Chairman to receive rents paid under this section.'.

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