51   Tenant may recover proportion of rates

Where after the passing of this Act a person in occupation under any lease or as tenant to the owner, has paid rates in respect of lands within a district and there is no sufficient provision in the lease or in some other written instrument with reference to the payment of rates, the person in occupation may recover from the lessor or owner the whole or such proportion of the rates as the court before which the action is tried shall think just.

This section shall not apply in respect of rates payable upon any land within the district of a trust, during the currency of any lease or tenancy thereof entered into before and existing at the commencement of this Act.