1950
Recovery of rates.
ORDINANCE No. 21 OF 1885.
Municipal Rates.
24. If any person fail to pay any rates for which he is liable, upon the day notified in the Gazette as the day for payment, the Treasurer may recover the same by suit in the summary jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, together with interest at the rate of eight per cent. per annum until the day of payment.
Refund of rates for uninhabited
Made of obtaining refund.
Refund of rates.
25. Whenever any tenement, not being a tenement at Victoria Peak, is unoccupied for three months of any quarter in respect of which the rates have been paid in advance, the Treasurer shall refund the rates for such quarter.
(3.)
26. Refund of rates when any tenement at Victoria Peak shall, in any year, be continuously unoccupied from 1st July to December inclusive, the owner shall be entitled to a refund of half the rates paid during such period on account of such tenement; and for each succeeding entire quarter during which such tenement shall be continuously unoccupied he shall be entitled to a refund.
If a tenement at Victoria Peak shall, in any year, be continuously unoccupied from January to June inclusive, and shall then be occupied, the owner shall be entitled to a refund of half the rates paid during such period on account of such tenement.
A refund shall be obtained in the following manner:-
(1.) The owner of any tenement may give notice to the Treasurer that such tenement is vacant not later than the fifteenth day of any month from the first day of which it is intended to claim such refund.
(2.) As long as such tenement shall remain continuously unoccupied no further notice shall be required, but after the re-occupation of such tenement notice shall again be required as provided for in the preceding sub-section.
(3.) The person claiming the refund may, within fifteen days after the expiration of the quarter during which the tenement has been unoccupied, apply to the Treasurer in the form D in the schedule to this Ordinance.
(4.) For the purpose of this section, it shall be sufficient if the Treasurer is satisfied that the tenement was unoccupied during such months, and he may satisfy himself by causing it to be actually inspected from time to time.
(5.) In the case of tenements at Victoria Peak no refund shall be made until the tenement has been continuously unoccupied during two quarters immediately succeeding the period for which the refund is claimed, after which the refund may be made quarterly till the tenement is occupied.