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Draft Bills.
No. S. 200.-The following bills are published for general information:----
C.8.0.
[No. 9-5.6 31.—4.]
A BILL
Short title.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Rating Ordinance,
1901.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Rating Amend- ment Ordinance, 1931.
Repeal of 2. Section 29 of the Rating Ordinance, 1901, is Ordinance No. 6 of 1901, for :-
repealed and the following section is substituted there-
8. 29,
and substitu- tion of new
section.
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 6 of 1901, s. 43.
Amendment
Amount of rates.
29. After the time for appealing has ex- pired, 17 per cent on the valuation of every tenement enumerated in the list shall be pay- able as rates from the 1st day of July in each year or from such other day as may be fixed by the Governor in Council: Provided that the said percentage shall be reduced to 16 per cent, in the case of any tenement for the water supply of which from the Government Waterworks the only provision made is a supply of unfiltered water, and shall be reduced to 15 per cent, in the case of any tenement for which no provision is made for any supply of water from such waterworks. For the purposes of this section provision for water supply shall be deemed to be made for a tene- ment, although it has not connection with the Government water-mains or waterworks, if such tenement is situated within 200 yards of a Government water-main.
3. Section 43 of the Rating Ordinance, 1901, is amended as follows :-
(i) by the deletion of all the words in the first four
lines.
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(ii) by the deletion of the words to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars' in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4) and (7) and by the substitution therefor in each case of the words "upon sum- mary conviction to a fine not exceeding five bundred dollars, and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months".
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(iii) by the insertion of the words “ upon summary conviction" after the word liable in the third line of paragraph (5), and in the second and fifth lines of paragraph (6).
4. The note at the foot of Form No. 1 in the Schedule of Ordinance to the Rating Ordinance, 1901, is repealed and the
following note is substituted therefor :-
No. 6 of
1901,
Schedule
Form No. 1.
NOTE. Every owner or occupier who refuses or neglects to furnish the particulars required, and every person who knowingly furnishes any false or incorrect particulars, is liable upon sum- mary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months. If the above infor- mation is not furnished within ten days, no appeal from the assessment will be allowed.