XN000022-1988-01-27 — Page 10

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1988

9

FULL INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN ON ASSESSING RATEABLE VALUES

STAFF WHICH

*

HAS ISSUED COMPREHENSIVE THE RATING AND VALUATION DEPARTMENT

THE EXPLAIN

PRINCIPLES OF ASSESSING AND STEPS,

THE RESPONSIBILITY AND IN THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS, THE

INSTRUCTIONS TO RATEABLE VALUES, THE PROCEDURAL

STAFF INVOLVED AUTHORITY OF THE

FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON PIERS JACOBS, COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE

MR JACOBS SAID

IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON PAULINE NG, VALUATIONS PREPARED BY JUNIOR STAFF WERE APPROVED BY SENIOR OFFICERS.

BY

OUT

SENIOR HE ALSO

CARRIED SAID SPOT CHECKS WERE

ENSURE THAT THE INSTRUCTIONS PROFESSIONAL AND DIRECTORATE STAFF TO WERE FOLLOWED AND THE ASSESSMENTS WERE CORRECT.

"OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS (JANUARY 1985 - DECEMBER 1987),

HAS RECEIVED 30,195 OBJECTIONS RATING AND VALUATION DEPARTMENT NEW AND EXISTING ASSESSMENTS, MOST OF WHICH HAVE NOW BEEN HE SAID.

THE

ΤΟ

+

PROCESSED,

[I]

'AS A RESULT OF THESE OBJECTIONS, THE RATEABLE VALUES OF PREMISES WERE REDUCED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF RATING AND VALUATION A FURTHER FOUR BY THE LANDS TRIBUNAL FOLLOWING APPEALS."

SECURITY MEASURES AT PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES OUTLINED

*

7,026 AND

THE SECURITY SITUATION IN PUBLIC BEEN BETTER THAN THAT IN PRIVATE SECTOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, THE HON DONALD COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY),

MR LIAO SAID POLICE CRIME

HOUSING ESTATES HAS ALWAYS HOUSING, THE SECRETARY FOR LIAO, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE

SHOWED STATISTICS

THAT THE CRIME

IN HOUSING AUTHORITY

RATE IN 1976 WAS 79 CASES PER 10,000 PERSONS ESTATES AND 139 CASES PER 10,000 PERSONS FOR HONG KONG OVERALL.

/IN 1985,

Page 10Page 11