ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hong Kong, ...15.th. March, 1935.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No. .....19..........of 193 5.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance. inti tuled an
Ordinance to amend the Rating Ordinance, 1901, and I am
of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary
to the Governor's instructions.
2. Despite the fact that there is no provi si on in the
Rating Ordinance, 1901, excluding the New Territories
from the operation of that Ordinance, no assessment or
collection of rates has hitherto been made outside the
boundaries of the island of Hong Kong and of Kowloon and
New Kowloon.
3. With the granting of certain benefits in the way of
street lighting, street maintenance, drainage, water
supply, scavenging, etc., to such areas as Taipo Market,
Un Long, and Tsuen Wan, it is considered that some form
of rating should be applied in the case of such urban
areas in the New Territories.
4.
Accordingly, this amending Ordinance adds to the Rating Ordinance, 1901, a new section (Section 49) in
eight sub-sections establishing in the New Territor ie s
(other than New Kowloon) a modified system of rating of
which the salient features are as follows:-
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