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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1991
SUFFICIENT SAFEGUARDS IN EXISTING PROCEDURE IN CONSIDERING PROPOSALS FOR ALTERATION OF VALUATION LIST
* * *
THE GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS THAT THERE ARE
IN THE EXISTING
PROCEDURE
AND
THAT
THE
FOR
SUFFICIENT SAFEGUARDS
OF A ESTABLISHMENT
AND INEXPENSIVE
OF DETERMINATION
NEW BASY APPEALS
THE GIVEN
FINAL
INDEPENDENT BODY IS NOT NECESSARY, ACCESS TO THE JUDICIAL PROCESS CONCERNING PROPOSALS FOR THE ALTERATION OF THE VALUATION LIST.
THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON
REPLY TO
SIR PIERS JACOBS, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THIS TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN A WRITTEN A QUESTION FROM THE HON POON CHI-FAI.
OF
SIR PIERS SAID UNDER THE RATING ORDINANCE, THE COMMISSIONER
ANY PROPOSAL FOR THE RATING AND VALUATION WAS REQUIRED TO CONSIDER ALTERATION OF THE VALUATION LIST.
PROFESSIONAL STAFF STAFF WILL REVIEW
"ALL PROPOSALS ARE CAREFULLY CONSIDERED BY OF THE RATING AND VALUATION DEPARTMENT AND SENIOR ALL DECISIONS BEFORE THEY ARE ISSUED TO ENSURE FAIRNESS," HE SAID.
WITH THE DECISION "IF A RATEPAYER IS STILL NOT SATISFIED THE COMMISSIONER, HE MAY APPEAL TO THE LANDS TRIBUNAL FOR A HEARING."
THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY SAID THE TRIBUNAL
JUDICIAL INFORMAL.
BODY,
AND THE
WAS PROCESS
OF
WAS AN INDEPENDENT
INEXPENSIVE
RELATIVELY
AND
"RATEPAYERS MAY REPRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE
HE SAID. NEED NOT EMPLOY LEGAL COUNSEL,
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LEAFLET
AS TO WHETHER WRITTEN EXPLANATIONS WERE SECRETARY SAID IT WAS THE DEPARTMENT'S STANDARD WITH THE COMMISSIONER'S TOGETHER WITH A MORE DETAILED PAMPHLET ON RATING PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE GENERAL REVALUATION.
DECISION
A
FOR THE
THE TRIBUNAL AND
GIVEN, THE FINANCIAL PRACTICE то ENCLOSE NOTES EXPLANATORY IN HONG KONG WITH
OF
"IT WOULD NOT BE PRACTICABLE DETAILED EXPLANATIONS ON A PROPERTY BY PROPERTY BASIS.
COMMISSIONER
TO ISSUE
"IF:
HOWEVER, A RATEPAYER REQUIRES FURTHER EXPLANATION, HE ENQUIRE AT THE DEPARTMENT," SIR PIERS SAID.
MAY
RESPONSE TO THE 1991
WAS
LASTLY, SIR PIERS SAID THE
GENERAL
THREE PER CENT OF THE VALUATION LIST.
IN 1988, THE NUMBER VALUATION L6T; AND IN 1984, THE NUMBER WAS 99,588, OR 13.4 OF THE VALUATION LIST.
"THUS, IT APPEARS THAT THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN
ΤΟ RELATION
NUMBER OF PROPOSALS IN FINANCIAL SECRETARY SAID.
THE CURRENT
REVALUATION,"
NUMBER REVALUATION
OF
WAS
PROPOSALS
34,261,
RECEIVED IN REPRESENTING
26,149,
OR
2.8
PER
CENT OF THE PER CENT
THE
THE
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