Rent-book

(1) Where the rent for the year, month or week does not exceed fifteen dollars, the landlord shall provide a rent-book in respect of every tenant. (2) The names and addresses of the landlord and the tenant, a short description of the tenement and the amount of the rent reserved shall be legibly written by the landlord at the head of the first page of every rent- book. (3) The rent-book shall remain in the custody of the tenant, but it shall be delivered up by him to the landlord or his agent so often as it may be necessary for the making of entries therein by the landlord or his agent who shall make such entries and forthwith re-deliver the rent-book to the tenant. (4) The landlord or his agent shall, at the time of every payment of money for or on account of rent, enter in the rent- book every sum of money so paid to him. (5) The landlord shall provide in the said rent-book a number of blank pages, the first of which shall be headed “Notices” for the purpose of enabling notices affecting the tenancy to be given by the landlord or the tenant, and every landlord or his agent on the one hand or tenant on the other shall, on the first occasion on which the rent-book comes into his possession after the insertion therein of any notice by the other, place his signature immediately below that notice in acknowledgment of the fact that he has seen that notice.