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See 54384/27/48 Piers (Repeat). Ordinance, 1948 (No.1671948)
12. It is recognised that special conditions will arise in the case of privately owned piers which are used for public utility services.
13. Present rentals are in accordance with the scale prescribed in the schedule to the Piers Ordinance, 1899, and this scale continues in force until 31st December 1949. The scale is open to criticism on the following grounds:
(a) It was devised fifty years ago and does not reflect present-day values.
(b) The rentals throughout the harbour frontage of the City of Victoria are on the same scale irrespective of the position of the pier or the use to which it is put.
(c) The rentals for piers in places other than Victoria are one-half of the scale for the piers in Victoria irrespective of locality.
(a) The scale is not related to any basic rental per square foot, but is a fixed rental graded according to specified areas and after an area of 10,000 feet has been reached no additional rental is chargeable.
(e) This scale does not take into consideration advantages derived from locality, shelter or depth of water or the suitability of any of these factors to the use for which the pier is intended.
The scale at present applicable to Victoria for the smallest piers (500 ft. and under) works out at 24 per square foot against 12 per square foot for a pier of 10,000 square feet or 6 per square foot for a pier of 20,000 square feet. For a pier in the choicest position on the Kowloon promontory the rent would be the same as that for a pier of equal size at Taipo. For a pier at Kennedy Town the rental would be double that for a pier of equal size in the choicest position at Kowlbon.
14. In future no graduated scale such as that set out in the schedule of the Piers Ordinance will be prescribed, but the rental will be assessed in each case according to the actual area of the pier in relation to a basic maximum rental which will be applicable only to such piers as enjoy to the fullest extent all the advantages of locality, shelter and natural depth of water. maximum rental will be 25 per square foot until 31st December, 1964.
The basic
15. No premium will be charged for the grant of new leases.
16.
The Piers Ordinance, 1899, will be repealed in toto
subject to the preservation until 31st December, 1949, of the rights, privileges, obligations or liabilities acquired, accrued or incurred under the Ordinance under or by virtue of licences or leases granted before 31st December, 1946.
17. This will remove the exemption from rating granted by section 17 of the Piers Ordinance, and an amendment
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