THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 21, 1941. 335
MOTIONS.
6. The Financial Secretary addressed the Council and moved the following
resolution:
RESOLVED pursuant to sections 3 and 5 of the Enter- tainments Tax Ordinance, 1930, as amended by the Enter- tainments Tax Amendment Ordinance, 1941, that as from the 1st day of April, 1941, the rates of Entertainments Duty at present in force be abolished and that Entertainments Duty at the following rates be substituted therefor :-
RATES OF ENTERTAINMENTS DUTY.
Amount of payment.
Rate of duty.
Where the amount of payment for ad-
mission, excluding the amount of the duty--
does not exceed 4 cents
Free.
exceeds 4 cents and does not exceed
10 cents
1 cent.
exceeds 10 cents and does not exceed
20 cents
2 cents.
exceeds 20 cents and does not exceed
35 cents
5 cents.
exceeds 35 cents and does not exceed
60 cents
10 cents.
exceeds 60 cents and does not exceed
$1.00
20 cents.
exceeds $1.00 and does not exceed
$1.40
30 cents.
exceeds $1.40 and does not exceed
$2.00
40 cents.
exceeds $2.00 and does not exceed
$3.00
50 cents.
exceeds $3.00 and does not exceed
$4.00
70 cents.
exceeds $4.00 and does not exceed
$5.00
$1.00.
exceeds $5
$1.30 for the first $5.00 and 30 cents for each additional dollar or part thereof.
The Attorney General seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
7. Appropriation Bill for 1941-1942.-The Financial Secretary moved the Second reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Fifty-two million four hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four Dollars to the Public Service of the financial year beginning on the 1st April, 1941, and ending on the 31st March, 1942, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding Eight hundred and thirty-two thousand Dollars to the Waterworks Renewals and Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the said financial year."