Right of tenant to receipt

(1) Every tenant who makes a payment on account of rent or advance shall be entitled to obtain a receipt in the prescribed form for the amount paid, signed by the landlord or his authorised agent. (2) Where a landlord defaults or refuses to accept any rent lawfully payable to him by a tenant, or denies the receipt of any rent, it shall be open to the tenant to remit the rent to the landlord by money order, after deducting the money order commission, and continue to remit any rent which may subsequently become due in respect of the building in the same manner until the landlord signifies by a written notice to the tenant his willingness to accept the rent or specifies a bank in which the rent shall be deposited in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2).