Crown rent when
payable.
Documents to be produced on tender- ing payment.
Ordinance No.4 of 1936.
6.
Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the purposes of
this Proclamation and includes any Deputy or
Assistant Collector.
"Owner" means the person whose name, is or was
at the commencement of the enemy occupation, as
the case may be, registered in the Land Office
as that of the owner or holder of any land held
under lease granted by the Crown, and for the
purposes of this Proclamation every mortgagee
in possession shall be deemed an owner.
3. The Crown rent due in respect of any land
for the half-year ending on the
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shall be paid to the Collector at the Colonial
Treasury, or such other place or places as may
be appointed by the Deputy Chief Civil Affairs
Officer, on or before the
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thereafter at the times fixed by the Crown lease
of such land.
4. (1) The owner or other person tendering payment
of Crown rent shall, if required so to do by the
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person to whom the payment is tendered, produce
to such last mentioned person at the time of
tendering payment all receipts or other documents
in his possession (whether issued by the Govern- ment of Hong Kong or by the occupying power)
relating to the payment of any Crown rent which
acchued due on or after the 24th June, 1941, or
relating to any determination of the Crown rent,
whensoever made, made under the provisions of the Crown Rents (Apportionment) Ordinance, 1936,
in respect of the land to which the tender
relates and shall, on a like requirement, leave
such receipts or other documents in the custody of such last mentioned person on being given
a receipt therefor.
(2) The Collector may, by notice in writing in
that behalf, require the owner of any land held
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