A monthly tax invoice rendered by a landlord's agent constitutes a sufficient 'demand' for the purposes of a lease re-entry clause requiring rent to be unpaid 14 days after it should have been paid and after demand. A payment made by a tenant to a landlord in discharge of a former tenant's debt, where the funds are deducted from an amount owed by the tenant to the former tenant, does not constitute a prohibited premium under s 15 of the Retail and Commercial Leases Act 1995 (SA) because the payment is properly characterised as made by the former tenant, not the new tenant.
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