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Tenants compensation for unexhausted improvements

Cap. 186, s. 18 · Revised Edition 2020

Subject to section 20, where the tenant of a tenancy, to which this Act applies has carried out on the land subject to the tenancy any improvement, whether the improvement was or was not an improvement which he was required to make by the terms of the contract of tenancy, he shall be entitled on the termination of the tenancy or on its being deemed to be terminated by the landlord, to obtain from the landlord as compensation for any improvement the benefit of which is unexhausted, such sum as fairly represents the amount a willing purchaser of the land would pay for the enhanced value of the land, Provided that this section shall not apply to, (a) tenant’s fixtures of any kind; or (b) any building, which by virtue of section 13 of the Landlord and Tenant Act, Cap. 189, the tenant is entitled to remove on the termination of the tenancy or at the election of the landlord to receive compensation therefor.
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