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No. 6 of 1901.
RATING.
Offences and penalties.
Schedule.
Form No. 1.
[cf. Schedule. Form No. 2.]
Offences.
43.-(1) Every owner or occupier of a tenement who refuses or neglects to furnish the particulars required under section 4 shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
(2) Every person who knowingly makes any false or incorrect statement in furnishing the particulars specified in Form No. 1 in the Schedule shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, for each tenement in respect of which such false or incorrect particulars are furnished.
(3) Every owner or occupier of a tenement who refuses to exhibit, when required, to the Assessor any receipt for rent, or any book or other document, relevant to the valuation, shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
(4) Every person who prevents, hinders or obstructs the Assessor from entering, inspecting and measuring any tenement, after delivery of due notice of his intention to do so and after the lapse of twenty-four hours from such notice, shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
(5) Every person who prevents, hinders or obstructs the numbering, or the maintenance or alteration of the number, of any tenement shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
(6) Every person who conceals, removes, defaces or obliterates the number of any tenement shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten dollars; and also, in a case where such concealment or obliteration arises from the act of the owner or occupier of such tenement, shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine of one dollar for each day during which it is continued.
* As amended by No. 16 of 1931 [17.7.31].