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Ord. No. 53/84
RATING (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2)
L.S.
HONG KONG
No. 53 OF 1984
An Ordinance to amend the Rating Ordinance.
I assent.
Provision Amended
D. C. BRAY, Deputy to the Governor.
Section 19(6)
25 July 1984
Section 31
[1 August 1984]
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RATING (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2)
Ord. No. 53/84
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SCHEDULE
CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
[s. 3.]
Deletion
"an amount added thereto by virtue of"
"added to rates deemed to be in default under section 22 or"
"added to rates deemed to be in default under section 22 or"
"amount recovered therewith in respect of rates deemed to be in default under section 22 or"
3 Substitution
"any sum payable in addition to rates under”.
"paid in addition to rates under section 22(2) or (2A) or section".
"paid in addition to rates under section 22(2) or (2A) or section".
sum paid in addition to rates under section 22(2) or (2A) or section".
Short title and
commencement.
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
1.
This Ordinance may be cited as the Rating (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance 1984 and shall come into operation on 1 August 1984.
Amendment of
2.
section 22.
(Cap. 116.)
Consequential amendments.
Schedule.
Section 22 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) by deleting subsection (2A) and substituting the following—
"(2A) Where on the expiry of a period of 6 months from the date when any rates were deemed to be in default, whether such date was before or after 1 August 1984, there remains unpaid any amount of the aggregate of-
(a) the rates deemed to be in default; and
(b) any sum added thereto under subsection (2),
the Collector of Rates may order that a sum or sums not exceeding 10 per cent in all of the unpaid amount shall be added to the unpaid amount and recovered therewith.";
(b) in subsection (3) by deleting "sum added thereto by virtue of" and
substituting the following-
"sum payable in addition to rates under"; and
(c) by adding, after subsection (3), the following-
3.
"(4) Any amount charged by the Collector of Rates prior to 1 August 1984 in the purported exercise of his powers under subsection (2A) by way of surcharge upon the unpaid amount of any sum added to rates under subsection (2) shall, notwithstanding that the rates were not in default at the time of making such charge, be deemed to have been validly charged and to be recoverable as if the rates had been in default at the time of making such charge.".
The provisions of the principal Ordinance specified in column 1 of the Schedule are amended by deleting the words mentioned in column 2 and substituting the words mentioned in column 3.
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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 24th day of July 1984.
R. J. W. UPTON,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
R. I. W. UPTON, Clerk to the Legislative Council.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.