Increase in rent on account of certain ground rent excepted

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Statutory text

(1) Where a landlord is required to pay to the Government or any local authority in respect of any premises any increase in the ground rent made after the coming into operation of this Act, he shall be entitled to make an increase in the rent of the premises by an amount not exceeding one-third of the increase due and paid by him, from time to time, after the date of such commencement, by way of ground rent.
(2) The amount of the increase in rent recoverable from each tenant under sub-section
(1) shall be calculated in the same proportion as the rent payable by him in respect of his premises bears to the total amount of the rent recoverable for the whole of the premises, if let.
(3) Any increase under this section shall not be deemed to be an increase for the purposes of section 7.

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