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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 20, 1912.
Order to prescribe amount
and mode of levy.
rate.
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(3.) Any such order for the levy and payment of a special rate as aforesaid shall prescribe the amount of such sate, the class or classes of property upon which such rate rhall be levied, and the period for which such rate shall be
levied.
Payment (4.) The payment of any special rate imposed under the of special provisions of this section shall be made and shall be capable of being enforced in the same manner as are rates levied under the provisions of the Rating Ordinance, 1901, provid- ed however that notwithstanding any express or implied agreement as to the payment of rates levied under the pro- visions of the Rating Ordinance, 1901, between the owner and occupier of any tenement upon which any special rate shall be levied under the provisions of this section any such special rate so levied shall be deemed to be an occupier's rate and the amount thereof, if paid by the owner, may be recovered by such owner from the occupier in an action for money paid to his use or, if such occupier is still in occupation of such tenement, by distress in the same man- ner as for rent.
Exemption from payment.
Compensa- tion to
person suffer. ing damage.
Reward to informers and remune- ration for assistance.
Special rate not assess→ able for Military Contribu. tion.
Fower to suspend
operation of Ordinance.
Date of
coming into operation.
Power to give retro- spective effect.
(5.) The Governor-in-Council may in his discretion exempt from the payment of any special rate levied under the provisions of this section any person who is an occupier of or owner of property in any area proefaimed as a boy- cotting area under the provisions of this section.
(6.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to order the payment to any person who may have incurred pecuniary loss or suffered damage by reason of any offence committed or believed by the Governor-in-Council to have been committed against the provisions of this Ordinance of the whole or any part of the amount of any special rate levied under the provisions of this section.
(7.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to order the payment from the amount of any special rate levied under the provisions of this section of such sum or sums as he may think fit by way of reward to any person or persons who may have given such information as shall have in the opinion of the Governor-in-Council been of utility in the prevention, detection, or punishment of any offence about to be committed or committed against the provisions of this Ordinance or by way of remuneration to any person or persons whom it may be, in the opinion, of the Governor-in-Council, desirable to employ for the pur- pose of carrying out or assisting in carrying out effectively the provisions of this Ordinance.
(8.) No special rate levied under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable to assessment for Military contri- bution under the provisions of the Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901.
10. It shall be lawful for the Governor at any time and from time to time by proclamation published in the Gazette to order that the operation of this Ordinance or of any part of this Ordinance shall be suspended from such day and for such period as the Governor shall in such proclamation determine and it shall further be lawful for the Governor in like manner at any time and from time to time to rescind or vary any such order.
11. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the 19th day of December, 1912, but if at the expiration of seven days after the date of the coming into operation of this Ordinance or at the expiration of a like period after the date of the coming into operation of any order rescinding the suspension of the operation of this Ordinance issued under the provisions of section 10 of this Ordinance any state of boycotting or condition of boycotting which may be in existence at the date of the coming into operation of the Ordinance or of any order as aforesaid has not entirely ceased and abated it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to declare by Proclamation published in the Gazette that the provisions of section 9 of this Ordinance shall operate retrospectively and shall be deemed to have been in force as from such date as may by the said Proclamation be deter- mined and upon the publication of such Proclamation the provisions of section 9 of this Ordinance shall be as from such date so determined in such Proclamation of full legal
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