Section 164 Occupiers may deduct a proportion of drainage rate from their rent.

Every occupier of any such house or building at a rent not less than the rackrent who has paid any such drainage rate shall be entitled to deduct three-fourths of the rate so paid by him from the rent payable by him to his landlord: Every occupier at a rent less than the rackrent who has paid any such drainage rate shall be entitled to deduct from the rent payable by him to his landlord such proportion of three-fourths of the rate so paid by him as the rent payable by him bears to the rackrent.