CO129-592-22 Future policy- Emergency Rates Proclamation 1-8-1945 - 31-8-1945 — Page 14

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Application for cancellation or review of valuation.

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Exemption of certain tenements

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Proclamation from being substantially complied

with.

16. (1) Any person who is aggrieved by a valuation

or an interim valuation on the ground that the

tenement is not rateable under this Proclamation

or that it is valued beyond its rateable value

may apply to the Deputy Chief Civil Affairs

Officer for such valuations to be cancelled or

reviewed.

(2) Any application under the provisions of the

preceding sub-section shall be in writing and

must be lodged at the place at which rates are

payable within twenty-one days after the list

in which the valuation is included is first

open for inspection in accordance with the

provisions of section 12 or within twenty-one

days after notice of valuation shall have been

served under the provisions of section 13, which-

ever date shall be the earlier and such applica-

tion shall contain a full statement of all the

facts material to the application.

(3) The decision of the Deputy Chief Civil

Affairs Officer, or of any person authorised by

him to consider the application, shall be final

and conclusive.

17. (1) Tenements below the rateable value of

Twenty dollars, or such other minimum amount as

may be fixed by the Deputy Chief Civil Affairs

Officer and notified in the Gazette, shall not

be rateable.

(2) So long as they are not occupied in any way

for gain or pecuniary profit, the tenements specif fied in sub-section (2) of section 39 of the

Rating Ordinance, 1901, shall not be rateable.

(3) Land which is held or occupied as a distinct