Cap. 16 Art. 1541When lessee may be authorised to carry out repairs.

(1) If the lessor, on being required so to do by means of a judicial act, fails to carry out the repairs to which he is bound, it shall be competent to the lessee to request, by application, authorization to carry out such repairs at the expense of the lessor, under such conditions as the Adjudicating Panel for Private

Residential Leases, the Rent Board, or the Court or the Rural Leases

Control Board, as the case may be, may deem proper in the circumstances.

(2) The lessee shall have the right to keep the rent due or the rent which is still due to be paid, so that he will be paid back for such expenses, subject to his rights for any greater amount, if the amount of those expenses is more than such rent; in this case the lessor has no right to increase the rent as mentioned in article 1540(4).