THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 17, 1931.
HONG KONG.
No. 16 of 1931.
I assent.
W. PEEL,
L.S.
Governor.
17th July, 1931.
An Ordinance to amend the Rating Ordinance,
1901.
[17th July, 1931.]
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- Short title. ment Ordinance, 1931.
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2. Section 29 of the Rating Ordinance, 1901, is Repeal of repealed and the following section is substituted there- Ordinance for
No. 6 of 1901, s. 29, Amount of 29. After the time for appealing has ex- and substitu- rates.
pired, 17 per cent on the valuation of every tion of new tenement enumerated in the list shall be pay- section. 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 Amendment amended as follows :-
of Ordinance- No. 6 of
(i) by the deletion of all the words in the first four 1901, s. 43.
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 hundred dollars, and to imprisonment for auy 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).
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