Meaning of “in repair”

(1) Where an agreement is contained or implied in any lease to keep a building or a particular part of a building “in repair”, it shall, in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, mean in such state of repair as that in which a prudent owner might reasonably be expected to keep his property, due allowance being made for the age, character and locality of the building at the commencement of the lease. (2) There shall not be read into an agreement as mentioned in sub-section (1) an undertaking to put any building into a better state of repair than that in which it was at the commencement of the lease.