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Apportionment of Rents Act 1909 s 8

s 8 Effect of order

8. From the date of the order of apportionment —(a) the rent apportioned in respect of any subdivision shall be —(i) due to the Government by the person entitled to each subdivision and his executors, administrators and assigns, and shall, if the rent for the current year upon the State lease or grant remains unpaid, be payable forthwith; (ii) henceforth payable at the time and place at which the rent on the State lease or grant was payable; and (iii) recoverable by any means prescribed by law relating to the collection of rents due to the Government; (b) the covenant by the lessee or grantee to pay to the Government the rent specified in the State lease or grant shall —(i) in any case where the lessee or grantee has by duly registered deeds assigned or conveyed the entirety of the land comprised in the State lease or grant, be discharged; and (ii) in any case where the lessee or grantee retains a part only of the land comprised in the State lease or grant, be so modified as to apply only to the rent apportioned under this Act to that part of the land comprised in the State lease or grant which is retained by the lessee or grantee; and (c) any covenant by any person entitled to a subdivision to pay to the lessee or grantee a portion of the rent shall be discharged.

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