554 ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1863.
Police and Lighting Rates.
ner as hereinbefore provided in respect of rates in arrear : Provided always that no
such owner or occupier shall be assessed for the lighting assessment.
Misnomers, &c., 19. No misnomer or inaccurate description of any person , place or tenement in any
not to affect the
execution of this
Ordinance. document required for the purposes of this Ordinance, nor any mistake, informality or
omission committed in any proceeding had hereunder shall invalidate or prejudice such
document or proceeding or in anywise affect the execution of this Ordinance, provided
only that such person , place or tenement be designated in such document or proceed
ing to common intent and understanding, and that such mistake, informality or omission
be not of such a nature as to prevent the requirements of this Ordinance from being
substantially and in effect complied with.
Schedule to be 20. The schedule to this Ordinance annexed shall be deemed and taken to be a
part of Ordinan
ce.
part thereof, and the forms therein contained or any other forms to the like effect may
be used in the respective cases to which they are applicable.
Interpretation 21. The word " Tenement " in this Ordinance shall be construed to include any
clause.
Tenement.
house, cottage, shed, apartment , ground or building, or house together with land
annexed thereto and ordinarily occupied therewith as garden or pleasure-ground, all
outbuildings, stables, warehouses, yards and offices belonging or contiguous to any
house and occupied therewith by one and the same person or his servants as one entire
concern or undivided tenancy or holding, or not so belonging contiguous or occupied ;
Owner. the word " Owner " shall be construed to mean any person receiving or claiming the
rent of any such tenement for his own use, or receiving or claiming the same for the
use of any corporation aggregate or of any public company or of any landlord or lessor
who shall be a minor, under coverture or insane, or for the use of any person who shall
Person. not be usually resident within this Colony ; and the word " Person " shall be construed
to include any corporation or public company as well as any individual unless there be
something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction .
Commencement
ofOrdinance. 22. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of July next.
Short title. 23. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as " The Police and Lighting
Rate Ordinance, 1863."
SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS .
FORM I.
For the Assessment of the year 186
To Owner or Occupier [ as the case may be]
of
In pursuance of " The Police and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863 " we require you to furnish us with
the particulars relating to this tenement in the manner specified in the document hereunto annexed ,
and return the same to us at within one week from the date hereof.
Dated this day of 186 ·
Valuaters under " The Police and Lightin
Rate Ordinance, 1863."