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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1892.
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Consimit, Hom
Repeal of s. 1. sub-s. 2 of No. 15 of 1888.
(See 25 and 26 V. c. 103, s. 25.)
Repeal.
Bates fixed by substituted section.
Alational penalty.
Aluendment
of s. 16 of
No. 16 of 1890. Repeal of e. 33, ibid.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 15 of 1888, entitled “The Rating Ordinance, 1888," and Ordinance No. 16 of 1890 entitled "The Waterworks
BE
Ordinance, 1890."
E it enacted by the Governor of Hougkong, with the advice and conscut of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
1. Sections 2 to 5 inclusive of this Ordinance shall be read and construed together with The Rating Ordinance, 1888, as amended by Ordinance No. 17 of 1890.
2. Sub-section 2 of section 1 of The Rating Ordinance, 1888, is hereby repealed and the following sub-section shall be substituted therefor.
“2. Interim Valuation. A valuation made at any time of any tenement, which may have been increased or reduced in value since the last valuation thereof, whether by build- ing, destruction of building or other alteration in the struc- tural condition of such tenement, or which being rateable is not already rated."
3. The following portions of The Rating Ordinance, 1888, are hereby repealed, viz.:-
Section 28.
In section 34, sub-section 1, the words "not being a tenement in the Hill District" and sub-section 2 except the proviso at the end thereof.
In section 35, sub-section 5.
4. In lieu of the said section 28 shall be substituted and read the words following, that is to say:-
After the time for appealing has expired the following percentages on the valuation of every tenement enumerated in the list shall be payable as rates from the first day of July in each year or from such other day as may from time to time be fixed by the Governor in Council, viz., for any tene-
ment :-
In the City of Victoria,..
13 per cent. In that portion of the Hill District bounded on the North, South and West by the 600-foot contour, and on the East by a line drawn North and South passing through the Wanchai Gup; and in such other portion of the Hill District as may be hereafter by order of the Gov- ernor, notified in the Gazette, .103 percent. In the remaining portion of the Hill
District, In Yaumati, Kowloon Point and
.83 per cent.
Hunghon (as shown in a plan marked "Rating A" signed by the Surveyor General and de- posited in the Land Office), ......8 per cent. In any other place,...
.7 per cent.
Out of the Rates levied in the City of Victoria and out of the Rates levied in any other district or place where water is supplied by the Water Authority under the provisions of The Water- works Ordinance, 1890, an amount not exceeding Two per cent. of the valuation for the time being on the tenements in such city, district or place may, in the discretion of the Governor, be carried to the credit of the "Water Account" mentioned in section 16 of Ordinance No. 16 of 1890. 5. In addition to the penalties provided by section 42 of The Rating Ordinance, 1888, as amended by Ordinance No. 17 of 1890, any person who gives any notice required by section 35 of The Rating Ordinance, 1888, which is knowingly false or incorrect shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $100. Such penalty shall be recoverable in the manner provided by and subject to the provisions of the said section 42.
6. (1) The reference to section 28 of Ordinance No. 15 of 1888 in section 16 of The Waterworks Ordinance, 1890, and in section 30 of The Rating Ordinance, 1888, shall be deemed to be a reference to such section as hereby amended or as hereafter amended by any future Ordinance.
(2) Section 33 of The Waterworks Ordinance, 1890, is hereby repealed.