(12) Repairs. case law (1) Subject to the agreement, if the landlord fails to make such repairs or white-washing as may be necessary to keep the premises in proper shape, the Controller may, on application make to him by the tenant and after such inquiry as the Controller deems fit to make, direct that such repairs or white-washing may be made by the tenant and the cost thereof may be deducted from the rent payable to the landlord.

(2) Where any authority empowered by a law for the time being in force has required landlord to make such repairs within such period as may be specified by such authority and the landlord has made default in this behalf, such authority may require the tenant to make such repairs.

(3) Where the tenant has made the repairs as aforesaid the authority ordering the repairs shall, after due verification of the details of the expenditure incurred by the tenant, certify the cost of repairs and the tenant may thereupon deduct the amount so certified from the rent payable to the landlord.