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Rent Act (No. 7 of 1972) - Sect 26

Ejectment of tenants of parts of premises

26.
(1) Where any residential premises the annual value of which exceeds the relevant amount have been let before the date of commencement of this Act in separate parts which are not separately assessed for the purpose of rates and which parts are independent living units, the grounds on which the landlord may Institute action or proceedings for the ejectment of the tenant of any such part shall be the grounds on which the landlord of any premises the annual value or standard rent of which corresponds to the proportionate annual value or standard rent, as the case may be, fixed by the board for such part, may Institute action or proceedings for the ejectment of the tenant of any such premises.
(2) The board, in fixing the proportionate annual value of any part under sub-section (1), shall ensure that the aggregate of the proportionate annual values of all such parts does not exceed the annual value of the entire premises as specified In the assessment in force on the first day of January, 1969, or, where the assessment of the annual value of such premises was made for the first time after that date, the amount of such annual value as specified in such first assessment.


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