South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts99—Power of lessee to recover half cost of service pipes etc when lease
has less than five years to run
Any lessee, and the executors, administrators, and assigns of any lessee of
land, who holds or who hold the land under a lease for a term whereof a period
less than five years remain unexpired, when the cost hereinafter mentioned is
incurred, shall—
(a) be
entitled to receive from his lessor, his executors, administrators, or
assigns, a moiety of the cost which such lessee or his under-lessee, or the
executors, administrators, or assigns of such lessee or under-lessee, may have
paid or may be liable to pay to the Corporation for providing, laying down,
and fixing in readiness for use, such service pipes or other prescribed
fittings as are necessary for conveying the water from the main pipe to such
land; and
(b) may,
in addition to any other remedy for recovering such costs, deduct such moiety
from any rent due or to accrue due under the lease.