Clause 3

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:“(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any written law, every lessee of any flat comprised in any designated building and the Board shall be discharged, respectively, from the following covenant:

in the case of a lessee, from any covenant in the lease —

restricting or prohibiting the use of the flat for any trade, business, manufacture or commercial purpose;

prohibiting the erection or putting up of any signboard, advertisement, billboard or other sign on the exterior of the flat; or

which would impede the reasonable use of that flat for any commercial purpose; and

in the case of the Board, from any covenant in the lease requiring the Board —

to grant any lease of any other flat comprised in that designated building subject to any covenant referred to in paragraph (a)(i), (ii) or (iii); or

to enforce any covenant referred to in paragraph (a)(i), (ii) or (iii) on behalf of any lessee of any flat comprised in that designated building.”;

by deleting the words “the covenant” in the 2nd and 3rd lines of subsection (2) and substituting the words “any covenant”; and

by inserting, immediately after the word “Board” in the section heading, the words “and lessees”.