WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1990
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BILL REMOVES REDUNDANT PROVISIONS IN RATING ORDINANCE
WHICH SEEKS ΤΟ AMEND THE
NOW
THE RATING (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990,
A NUMBER OF
ARE PROVISIONS WHICH RATING ORDINANCE TO DELETE
PROVISIONS WHICH, IN RECENT YEARS, REDUNDANT AND TO CLARIFY OTHER
WAS DIFFICULTIES, HAVE
GIVEN
RISE
CERTAIN ΤΟ
ADMINISTRATIVE INTRODUCED INTO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY),
PROVISIONS
MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE BILL, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY,
SAID ONE OF THE REDUNDANT THE HON SIR PIERS CONCERNED SPECIFIED RATING AREAS.
JACOBS,
A GRADUAL "LIABILITY FOR RATES WAS INTRODUCED IN HONG KONG ON
RATING AREAS, EACH REQUIRING BASIS, AND THERE ARE NOW 47 SPECIFIED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PUBLICATION OF SECTION 11(1) OF THE ORDINANCE.
A SEPARATE
VALUATION LIST
"SINCE APRIL 1, 1988, THE RATING ORDINANCE HAS BEEN
CONSEQUENTLY,
ALL
APPLICABLE
ARE COUNCIL
RATEABLE TENEMENTS THROUGHOUT HONG KONG AND NOW SITUATED IN EITHER THE URBAN COUNCIL AREA OR THE REGIONAL AREA.
PROPOSES TO
ORDINANCE
ALL DELETE
AND REPLACE
REFERENCES
THEM,
то
WHERE
41.
THEREFORE "THE BILL
RATING THE SPECIFIED AREAS IN APPROPRIATE, WITH REFERENCES TO THE URBAN AND REGIONAL COUNCIL AREAS, SIR PIERS SAID.
NOTICES OF NEW RATEABLE HE SAID THE PROVISION CONCERNING VALUES GAVE RISE TO SOME ADMINISTRATIVE DIFFICULTIES.
OF
"FOLLOWING A GENERAL REVALUATION EXERCISE, THE COMMISSIONER
OR OCCUPIER RATING AND VALUATION IS REQUIRED TO SERVE UPON THE OWNER OF A TENEMENT A NOTICE OF A NEW RATEABLE VALUE," HE SAID.
THIS HAD TO BE DONE NOT LATER THAN THE FIRST DAY THE YEAR IN WHICH THE REVALUATION WAS TO TAKE EFFECT.
OF MARCH OF
A PRESENTED
PROBLEM IN THAT THE TIMING OF THAT REQUIREMENT
DECISIONS CONCERNING STRICT ADHERENCE TO THE DEADLINE DICTATED THAT RATES PERCENTAGE CHARGES AND ANY RATES RELIEF SCHEME WOULD HAVE TO TAKEN IN ADVANCE OF THE BUDGET, SIR PIERS SAID.
BE
OF NEW RATEABLE TO THE EXERCISE, WHICH IS TO
"FURTHERMORE, THE NECESSITY TO SERVE NOTICES VALUE IS CONSIDERED TO BE OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE IN RELATION PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVE OF A GENERAL REVALUATION PRODUCE A NEW VALUATION LIST.
"THE BILL THEREFORE SEEKS TO REMOVE THE TO SERVE NOTICES OF NEW RATEABLE VALUE.
STATUTORY
REQUIREMENT
"THAT
ARRANGEMENT INCLUDED IN THE SECOND QUARTER RATES
REQUIREMENT WHEREBY DETAILS
REPLACED BY AN WILL BE
VALUE RATEABLE OF THE NEW
DEMAND SENT TO MARCH OR APRIL OF THE YEAR IN WHICH THE VALUATION LIST HE SAID.
ADMINISTRATIVE
WILL RATEPAYERS
BE
IN
TAKES
EFFECT,"
/SIR PIERS