Rating.
other period of twelve months fixed by the Governor in Council.
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3. The Governor may appoint a Commissioner of Rating and Valuation and such surveyors as he may deem necessary for the purposes of this Ordinance, and may allow them such remuneration as he thinks fit.
4. The Commissioner may-
(a) serve the owner or occupier of any tenement with a requisition in the prescribed form and require him to furnish, within ten days, the particulars therein specified;
(b) enter into and upon any tenement for the purpose of making a valuation thereof, and take such measurements and other particulars as he may deem necessary for the purposes of such valuation;
(c) call upon such owner or occupier to exhibit to him all receipts for rent, rent-books, accounts or other documents whatever connected with the rent or value of such tenement;
(d) serve on such owner or occupier a written notice in the prescribed form, requiring permission to enter; and after twenty-four hours from the delivery of such notice may, at any time during the day-time, enter into and upon the said tenement and take measurements and other particulars, as hereinbefore provided, and may use force to effect such entry, if necessary, doing no more damage than is necessary for the purpose; and
(e) inspect or authorize a public officer to inspect on his behalf any room or other part of a tenement, which is exempted from assessment to rates under the provisions of section 2 or of subsection (5) of section 40, in order to ascertain that such room is being used for the purposes of and as required by the said provisions, by virtue of which they have been so exempted.
Valuation.
Powers of Commissioner.
26 of 1939, 8.3.
5. The Commissioner shall separately estimate the rateable value of each tenement, except in the following cases-
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