Cap. 16 Art. 1528When board or court may grant authorization.

(1) The Rent Board may, at the request made by means of an application by one of the co-possessors of the urban tenement, residence or commercial tenement, authorise the lease of the urban tenement, residence or commercial tenement, where it is shown that the tenement is suitable to be leased and that the proposed lease is advantageous, and that it is not shown that any of the other co-possessors has a just cause to oppose such lease: Provided that in the lease of movables all the provisions of this sub-article shall apply, however the matter shall fall within the competence of the courts of civil jurisdiction.

(2) The provisions of sub-article (1) shall also apply when any one of the co-possessors is absent, and the Rent Board, in the case of the lease of an urban tenement, a residence or a commercial tenement (or the court in the case of the letting or hiring of movables and other things, as the case may be), would not have received any notice whether the absentee is still living, or as to his whereabouts.