550 ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1863.
Police and Lighting Rates.
Persons acting 2. All persons heretofore appointed or acting under the said Ordinances shall, and
under said
Ordinances, to they are hereby authorized and required, notwithstanding the passing of this Ordi
continue to
discharge duties
till otherwise nance, to continue to discharge and execute their several duties and offices for the
directed.
purpose of carrying this Ordinance into execution, without any further or other appoint
ment thereto until the Governor shall otherwise direct.
Governor may
appoint persons 3. Upon the death, resignation or removal of such persons it shall be lawful for
to carry this the Governor from time to time to nominate and appoint other fit and proper persons
Ordinance into
execution , and
allow them such for the purpose of carrying this Ordinance into execution, and to allow them for the
remuneration as
he may deem performance of their duties, in that behalf, such remuneration as the Governor with
reasonable .
the advice of the Executive Council shall direct, and some one or more of the persons
so appointed as aforesaid shall at such times and in such manner as hereinafter pro
vided make or cause to be made a valuation of the tenements in this Colony or such
part thereof as the Governor with the advice of the Council aforesaid may at any time
direct and appoint.
Valuation to be 4. Such valuation shall be made at any time between the first day of August and
made between
the 1st day of
August and 15th the fifteenth day of November both inclusive in each year unless the Governor, with
day of November
in each year, the advice of the Executive Council, should deem it expedient to permit any existing
unless Governor
notify that then valuation to stand and be adopted wholly or in part for the year then next succeeding,
existing
valuation is to
stand wholly or in which case due notice of his intention shall between the days aforesaid be given in
in part.
the Government Gazette ; Provided always that such valuation whether adopted wholly
or in part only shall for the purposes of appeal be considered as a new valuation.
Valuators may in
execution of this 5. It shall be lawful for any person continued or appointed under this Ordinance
Ordinance
require occupier to require the owner or occupier of any tenement to furnish him with such particulars
or owner to fur
n'sh particulars as are set forth in form I in the schedule hereunto annexed, and from time to time to
ofthe rent or
annual value of enter into and upon such tenement for the purpose of making any valuation
any tenement
and may enter authorized by this Ordinance ; Provided always that in every case in which it shall be
the same.
necessary for any such person to enter any tenement, and when the owner or occupier
thereof shall oppose or refuse to allow such entry, such person shall give one day's
notice to the owner or occupier of such tenement requiring to be permitted to enter the
same and at any reasonable time after the expiration of such notice it shall be lawful to
make such entry, such person doing as little damage as may be in the execution of the
Penalty for pre powers hereby granted ; Provided also that in every case in which such owner or
venting such
entry or refusing
to furnish cor occupier shall refuse or fail to furnish such particulars for the space of one week from
rect particulars.
the day on which he shall have been required so to do or shall knowingly furnish false
or incorrect particulars , or shall after the expiration of the notice aforesaid hinder
obstruct or prevent any person continued or appointed under this Ordinance from
entering or inspecting any such tenement he shall be liable on conviction before a
Stipendiary Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Annual value
how to be 6. In every valuation to be made under the provisions of this Ordinance the person
ascertained.
so appointed to make such valuation as aforesaid shall cause every tenement to be
separately valued and such valuation shall be made upon an estimate of the gross