This Bill seeks to amend the Civil Code so as to remove the right of preference competent to persons occupying upper premises in a common tenement house or in a block of Flats on the occasion of a new lease of lower premises in the same common tenement house or block of flats.

It also amends the tariff of fees payable at the  Public Registry so as to make such figures easily convertible to the new currency when the decimalization comes into force.

Occasion has been taken to include in the said fees any stamp now payable separately under the Stamp Duties Ordinance (Chapter 68).