THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12тп DECEMBER, 1885.
14. The appellant shall give to the valuers notice in writing of his intention to appeal, and of the ground of appeal, seven days at the least before the holding of the court at which the appeal is to be heard;
And when the ground of appeal is that any person or any tenement is omitted from the said list, or that the tenement of any person is valued therein below its full and fair annual value, the appellant shall also give the like notice of appeal to the person interested in the result of the appeal, and such person may be heard upon the appeal
15. The court, upon proof of due notice having been given, shall hear and determine the matter of the appeal in a summary way, and may make such order therein as it thinks proper, with or without costs to any party; and may direct the valuer to amend the said list in such manner as the Court directs; and the valuer shall forthwith, in open Court, make the necessary amendments.
The determination of the Court shall be final and conclusive.
Valuation of Improved Tenements.
16. The Governor in Council may, at any time, direct the valuers to make a valuation of any tenement within the Colony upon which buildings have been erected completed, or to which other improvements have been added after the valuers have made out the aforesaid list.
or
17. The valuers shall make such valuation in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, and may exercise similar powers of entry and inspection, and shall notify to the Colonial Secretary the amount of such valuation when made. The valuers shall also, without delay, leave with the occupier of the tenement notice in writing of such valuation having been made, and of the amount thereof.
The tenement shall not be liable to be assessed until such notice is left.
18. Any person aggrieved by such valuation, on the ground that the tenement is not rateable under this Ordi- nance, or that the tenement is valued beyond its full and fair aunual rental, may, not later than fourteen days after the said notice is left, appeal to the Supreme Court in its Summary Jurisdiction, whereupon Sections 14, 15 and 20 of this Ordinance shall apply in relation to such appeal and the subsequent assessment.
19. The rates assessed shall be first paid on the next day appointed for the payment of rates, and shall thereafter continue to be payable as if they were included in the general list.
Rating.
20. After the time for appealing hasexpired there shall be payable from the first day of July in each year, or from such other day as may, from time to time, be fixed by Ordinance to be passed for that purpose, the following rates in respect of every tenement which has been valued as hereinbefore provided, that is to say :-
On Tenements within the City of Victoria.
Notice of appeal.
Hearing of appeni
Valuation of improvements.
Lode of v.:luation.
Appeal from Valuation.
Pagruent.
Rates fixed,
For Police Rate,
For Water Rate,
For Lighting Rate,
For Fire Brigade Rate,...
.83 per cent.
.2 per cent.
14 per cent.
per cent.
On Tenements beyond the City of Victoria.
For Police Rate.
At Victoria Peak, Quarry (
Bay, and Pokfulam, J
83 per cent.
At all other places,............7 per cent.
21. The amounts of the above Rates may be altered, from time to time, by Ordinance to be passed for that purpose.
22. The above rates may be levied collectively and called Municipal Rates, and shall be paid quarterly in advance at the Treasury within the first month of each quarter, and the time appointed for such payment shall be notified quarterly by the Treasurer in the Gazette.
How to be altered.
Rates, how
paid.
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