Hong Kong Ordinances

LANDLORD AND TENANT (CONSOLIDATION) ORDINANCE - SECT 36

Order where subletting is made without landlord's consent

The Tribunal on the application of a landlord may make an order for the
recovery of possession from or ejectment of the occupier of any premises the
rent whereof is payable monthly, the tenant of which has, after 1 March 1946
without the consent in writing of the landlord, assigned, transferred, sublet
or parted with the possession of such premises or any part thereof: Provided
that no order shall be made under this section against an occupier holding as
the sub-tenant of a principal tenant any portion of any domestic premises
which premises before 22 October 1945 were divided into and let as separate
domestic premises, or since that date have, with the consent of the landlord,
been so divided and let.

(25 of 1947 s. 20 incorporated. Amended 76 of 1981 s. 23)