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If a landlord without reasonable cause refuses or neglects to deliver to a thika tenant a receipt containing the particulars required by section 15 for any rent paid by the tenant, the Controller may, on application made in this behalf by the tenant within three months from the date of payment, by order direct the landlord to pay the tenant such penalty not exceeding double the amount of that rent as the Controller thinks fit.