CO129-554-2 Rating Amendment Ordinance 1935 15-3-1935 - 18-3-1935 — Page 8

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Third class.....Buildings which are valued by the assess- ing officer at over $200 but not over

$750.

(b) No rate shall be imposed in respect of any building of which the value, in the opinion of the assessing officer, is $200 or under.

(c) The assessing officer shall note in every assessment and valuation list made out by him the buildings which he finds neither to have nor to use Government Waterworks water.

(d) The word "tenement" throughout the Ordinance shall mean a building rateable under this section and the words "rateable value" in sections 16 (1) (a) and (d) and 28 (1) shall be read as if the words "true value" were substituted.

(4)(a) In respect of every building enumerated in the assessment and valuation lists for the New Territories, other than New Kowloon, and according to the classification thereof, and after the time for appealing under section 16 or section 28 has expired, there shall be payable as rates from the 1st July in each year or, in the case of an interim assessment, from the first day of the month next following the assessment, or from such other day as may be fixed by the Governor in Coun- cil, the sums or amounts specified in or ascertained under the following scale.

Class of building.

Third class. If noted in the list as neither having nor using Government Water- works water

Annual Rate.

$2

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(b) The annual rate provided for in paragraph (a) of this sub-section may be altered by resolution of the Legislative Council.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to repeal or affect any of the provisions of the Waterworks Ordinance, Ordinance 1903, or the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910, or any other Ordinance amending or extending the same.

No. 16 of 1903.

Ordinance No. 34 of

(5) The above rates shall be paid quarterly in advance 1910. at the office of the District Officer of the district and the times appointed for payment shall not be notified in the Gazette, but shall be published by him in each urban area in his district.

(6) Where default has been made by any person in pay- ment of any rate, the District Officer shall have the same powers as the Collector of Crown Rent under the Crown Rent regulations made under the New Territories Regulation Ordinance Ordinance, 1910, and the said Regulations (necessary changes 1910. being made) shall apply to the recovery of rates.

(7) Refund of rates may be made by a District Officer

on the same terms and subject to the same conditions and right of appeal as those set out in sections 35, 36, 37 and 38: Provided that in the case of a building let to more than one tenant, one or more of the floors of which is unoccupied during one or more entire months of any quarter, it shall be lawful for a District Officer to grant in respect of such non-occupation a refund not exceeding twenty per cent of the rates payable for that quarter.

(8) The forms in the schedule may be adapted and modified as the District Officers may find necessary.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 14th day of March, 1935.

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If not so noted....

Second class. If noted in the list as neither having nor using Government Water- works water

$6

$12

If not so noted.

First class. If noted in the list as neither

having nor using Government Water-¡ works water

If not so noted...

Special class. If noted in the list as neither baving nor using Government Water

works water

If not so noted...

$8

$16

$2 per $1000

of the valua- tion.

$4 per $1000 of the valua-

tion,

R. A. C. NoRTH,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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