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Amendment of section 30.

Revocation of Rating (Forms) Regulations. (Cmp. 116, sub, kg)

Application.

(Cap. 123)

(CL. 123)

from the date of issue of an occupation permit or temporary occupation permit under the Buildings Ordinance in respect of the tenement; or

(i) in relation to, any other tenement, the first day of the month following the expiration of six months from the date of issue of an occupation permit or temporary occupation permit under the Buildings Ordinance in respect of the tenement; or (b) the first day of the month following the date upon

which the tenement was first occupied.

whichever is the earlier.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)(a), if more than one temporary occupation permit has been issued in respect of a tenement, the periods specified in sub-paragraphs (1) and (ii) thereof shall run from the date of the issue of the first of such permits.”.

3. Section 30 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

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(a) in subsection (1) by deleting "If a tenement” and sub-

stituting the following-

"Subject to subsection (1A), if a tenement":

(6) by inserting, after subsection (1), the following-

"(1A) Subsection (1) shall not apply where-

(a) the use to which the tenement was last put before becoming unoccupied was wholly or primarily for domestic purposes; or

(b) the tenement is intended to be used wholly or

primarily for domestic purposes."; and

(c) in subsection (2) by inserting, after "subsection (1)".

the following----

"or (1A)".

4. The Rating (Forms) Regulations are revoked.

5. Section 28(2) of the principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance, shall have effect in relation to a tenement which forms the whole or part of a newly constructed building the occupation permit or temporary occupation permit of which is issued on or after the 1st day of January 1974.

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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 12th day of December, 1973.

Unwrees

Clerk to the Legislative Council

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.