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rates under section 36 of the principal Ordinance, to be recovered summarily with interest at eight per cent. before a magistrate.
2. The amendment of section 43 of the principal Ordin- ance, made by section 3 of Ordinance No. 16 of 1931, deleted a provision in the opening words of that section, limiting the time for recovery of penalties for offences against the Ordin- ance to two years. The effect of that amendment was to bring into operation section 20 of the Magistrates Ordinance, No. 41 of 1932, limiting the time for the making of a complaint or the laying of information to six months from the time when the matter of such complaint or information arose. In consequence certain offences have gone unpunished; clause 2 of this Bill adds a new sub-section (8) to section 43, extending the time within which proceedings may be taken to six years from the date of the offence.
3. Clause 3 of this Bill adds a new section 43A to the principal Ordinance, enabling the Assessor on the conviction of any person for an offence under section 43 (1) or (2), to make a new valuation of the tenement in respect of which the offence was committed, and making rates payable upon that valuation from the date of the conviction until the next assessment.
September, 1938.
J. A. FRASER,
Attorney General.