Legislative Council of Hongkong

“ The apportioned part of any such Rent, Annuity, Dividend, or other Payment shall be payable or recoverable in the case of continuing Rent, Annuity, or other such Payment, when the entire portion of which such apportioned part shall form part, shall become due and payable, and not before; and in the case of a Rent, Annuity, or other such Payment determined by re-entry, death, or otherwise, when the next entire portion of the same would have been payable if the same had not so determined, and not before. ”

“ All persons and their respective Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, and also the Executors, Administrators, and Assigns respectively of persons whose interest determine with their own deaths, shall have such or the same remedies at law and in equity for recovering such apportioned parts as aforesaid when payable (allowing proportionate parts of all just allowances) as they respectively would have had for recovering such entire portions as aforesaid if entitled thereto respectively ”

“ This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Apportionment Ordinance, 1886.
Rents, &c. to accrue from day to day, and be apportionable in respect of time [Ibid. s. 2.] 2. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance, all Rents, Annuities, Dividends, and other periodical Payments in the nature of income (whether reserved or made payable under an instrument in writing or otherwise) shall, like interest on money lent, be considered as accruing from day to day, and shall be apportionable in respect of time accordingly.
Apportioned part of rent, &c. ”