Section 8: Payment of rent
consolidated text (as at 2018, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
8. Payment of rent
(1) The rent payable under a lease shall be paid in advance to the Conservator of Forests as follows—
(a) where a lease begins on 8 September in a year, the lessee shall,
before the deed of lease is signed, pay the rent in respect of the
first year of the lease, and thereafter pay the rent in respect of
every following year of the lease on or before 1 April preceding
the following year of the lease;
(b) where a lease begins on a date between 8 September in a year
and 2 May of the following year, the lessee shall, before the
deed of lease is signed, pay the proportional part of a year’s rent
in respect of the period extending from that date to 7 September
next, and thereafter pay the rent in respect of every following
year of the lease on or before 1 April preceding the following
year of the lease; and
(c) where a lease begins on a date between 1 May in a year and
8 September in that year, the lessee shall, before the deed of
lease is signed, pay the proportional part of a year’s rent in respect of the period extending from that date to 7 September of
the following year, together with the rent in respect of the following year of the lease, and he shall thereafter pay the rent in
respect of every other following year of the lease on or before
1 April preceding such other following year of the lease.
(2) Where the rent in respect of the second or any following year of the
lease is not paid in accordance with this section, the Minister may notify the
lessee in writing that the lease is cancelled, and the lease shall consequently
be cancelled.