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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH MAY, 1892.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 222.
His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the Queen, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council :
Ordinance No. 5 of 1892.-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend Ordi- nance No. 15 of 1888, entitled “The Rating Ordinance, 1888,” and Ordinance No. 16 of 1890 entitled "The Waterworks Ordinance, 1890."
Ordinance No. 6 of 1892.--An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend "The Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1891.”
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th May, 1892.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
No. 5 of 1892.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend Ordinance No. 15 of 1888, entitled "The Rating Ordinance, 1888," and Ordinance No. 16 of 1890 entitled "The Waterworks Ordinance, 1890."
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WILLIAM ROBINSON,
Governor.
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[14th May, 1892.]
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E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. Sections 2 to 3 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 Sub-section 2 of section I of The Rating Ordinance, 1888, is hereby repealed and the following sub-section shall be substituted therefor.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 roduced 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 The following portions of The Rating Ordinance, 1888, are hereby repealed, viz.:-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 cach year or from
Construction.
Repeal of s. 1, subes. 2 of No. L5 of 1868.
(See 25 nil 26 V.c. 103, s. 25.)
Repeal.
Rates fixed by substituted section.