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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1991

SUFFICIENT SAFEGUARDS IN EXISTING PROCEDURE IN CONSIDERING PROPOSALS FOR ALTERATION OF VALUATION LIST

* * *

THE GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS THAT THERE ARE

IN THE EXISTING

PROCEDURE

AND

THAT

THE

FOR

SUFFICIENT SAFEGUARDS

OF A ESTABLISHMENT

AND INEXPENSIVE

OF DETERMINATION

NEW BASY APPEALS

THE GIVEN

FINAL

INDEPENDENT BODY IS NOT NECESSARY, ACCESS TO THE JUDICIAL PROCESS CONCERNING PROPOSALS FOR THE ALTERATION OF THE VALUATION LIST.

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON

REPLY TO

SIR PIERS JACOBS, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THIS TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN A WRITTEN A QUESTION FROM THE HON POON CHI-FAI.

OF

SIR PIERS SAID UNDER THE RATING ORDINANCE, THE COMMISSIONER

ANY PROPOSAL FOR THE RATING AND VALUATION WAS REQUIRED TO CONSIDER ALTERATION OF THE VALUATION LIST.

PROFESSIONAL STAFF STAFF WILL REVIEW

"ALL PROPOSALS ARE CAREFULLY CONSIDERED BY OF THE RATING AND VALUATION DEPARTMENT AND SENIOR ALL DECISIONS BEFORE THEY ARE ISSUED TO ENSURE FAIRNESS," HE SAID.

WITH THE DECISION "IF A RATEPAYER IS STILL NOT SATISFIED THE COMMISSIONER, HE MAY APPEAL TO THE LANDS TRIBUNAL FOR A HEARING."

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY SAID THE TRIBUNAL

JUDICIAL INFORMAL.

BODY,

AND THE

WAS PROCESS

OF

WAS AN INDEPENDENT

INEXPENSIVE

RELATIVELY

AND

"RATEPAYERS MAY REPRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE

HE SAID. NEED NOT EMPLOY LEGAL COUNSEL,

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LEAFLET

AS TO WHETHER WRITTEN EXPLANATIONS WERE SECRETARY SAID IT WAS THE DEPARTMENT'S STANDARD WITH THE COMMISSIONER'S TOGETHER WITH A MORE DETAILED PAMPHLET ON RATING PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE GENERAL REVALUATION.

DECISION

A

FOR THE

THE TRIBUNAL AND

GIVEN, THE FINANCIAL PRACTICE то ENCLOSE NOTES EXPLANATORY IN HONG KONG WITH

OF

"IT WOULD NOT BE PRACTICABLE DETAILED EXPLANATIONS ON A PROPERTY BY PROPERTY BASIS.

COMMISSIONER

TO ISSUE

"IF:

HOWEVER, A RATEPAYER REQUIRES FURTHER EXPLANATION, HE ENQUIRE AT THE DEPARTMENT," SIR PIERS SAID.

MAY

RESPONSE TO THE 1991

WAS

LASTLY, SIR PIERS SAID THE

GENERAL

THREE PER CENT OF THE VALUATION LIST.

IN 1988, THE NUMBER VALUATION L6T; AND IN 1984, THE NUMBER WAS 99,588, OR 13.4 OF THE VALUATION LIST.

"THUS, IT APPEARS THAT THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN

ΤΟ RELATION

NUMBER OF PROPOSALS IN FINANCIAL SECRETARY SAID.

THE CURRENT

REVALUATION,"

NUMBER REVALUATION

OF

WAS

PROPOSALS

34,261,

RECEIVED IN REPRESENTING

26,149,

OR

2.8

PER

CENT OF THE PER CENT

THE

THE

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