CO129-554-2 Rating Amendment Ordinance 1935 15-3-1935 - 18-3-1935 — Page 6

(a) The District Officers in their respective districts

are given the powers and duties of the Assessor of Rates and

the Colonial Treasurer under the principal Ordinance (s.s.1);

(76) Rates are to be imposed upon such parts of the Terri-

tories as are declared by the Governor in Council to be urban

areas and in respect of buildings only (s.s.2);

(c) Buildings are to be classified according to their

value as assessed from year to year by the District Officers

(s.s.3);

(a) s.s. 4 imposes an annual rate on buildings, graded

according to the classification thereof, the rate for a

building that enjoys the benefit of a Government water supply

being double the rate for one which does not. This annual

rate may be altered, as under section 31(1) of the principal

Ordinance, by resolution of the Legislative Council.

(e)

s.s.5 requires all rates to be paid quarterly in

advance to the District Officer. The times appointed for

payment will be notified in the districts and not in the

Gazette as provided by section 32 of the principal Ordinance;

(f) In the event of default in the payment of rates the

District Officers are given by s. s. 6 the same power in order

to recover the same as the Collector of Crown Rent is given

in respect of such rent by the Crown Rent regulations made

und er the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910;

(g) s.s.7 makes special provision for the refund of rates

in respect of non-occupation of part of a building;

(h) by s. s. 8 such modifications may be made in the Schedule

forms as the District Officers deem necessary.

6

5. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency

the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty

and on His behalf.

حكوو

счас

Attorney General.