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so and after the lapse of twenty-four hours from such notice, shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

(5) Any 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 of one hundred dollars.

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(6) Any person who conceals, removes, defaces or obliterates the number of any tenement shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine of fifty 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 five dollars for each day during which it is continued.

(7) Any person who gives any notice required by section 35 which is to his knowledge false or incorrect shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for six months and also to pay a sum equal to any loss in revenue occasioned by his default, with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent per annum, such sum and interest to be determined by the magistrate and recoverable in the same manner as a fine.

(8) Any owner or occupier who uses or occupies or knowingly permits to be used or occupied 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, for any purposes other than the purposes authorized under the said provisions, shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

(9) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 26 of the Magistrates Ordinance, any complaint or information in respect of any offence against this Ordinance may be made or laid at any time within six years of the date of the offence.

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New valuation on conviction.

45. Whenever any person has been convicted, in respect of any tenement, of an offence under subsection (1) or (2) of section 44, the Commissioner shall make a new valuation of the tenement and rates shall be payable on such valuation from the date of the conviction until the next assessment.

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