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Ord. No. 1/86

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(b) in subsection (2) by deleting "the general rates" and substituting the

following-

", in the case of a tenement in the Urban Council area, general rates and Urban Council rates and, in the case of a tenement in the Regional Council area, general rates and Regional Council rates”.

Amendment of section 19.

4.

Section 19 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

Repeal and replacement of section 23.

Amendment of section 30.

Amendment of section 36.

Amendment of section 37.

(a) in subsection (1) by inserting after paragraph (b) the following -

“(ba) an amount carried forward under section 50A(1); and”; and

(b) by deleting subsection (3).

Section 23 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the

5. following-

"Payment of rates

to the Urban

and Regional

Councils.

6.

23. (1) Before the end of the first month of each quarter the Collector of Rates shall pay

(a) to the Urban Council such proportion of the net rates collected by him in respect of tenements in the Urban Council area during the previous quarter as the percentage of the rateable value prescribed under section 18 for Urban Council rates bears to the aggregate of that percentage and the percentage of the rateable value so prescribed for general rates in relation to the Urban Council area at the time of that collection;

(b) to the Regional Council such proportion of the net rates collected by him in respect of tenements in the Regional Council area during the previous quarter as the percentage of the rateable value prescribed under section 18 for Regional Council rates bears to the aggregate of that percentage and the percentage of the rateable value so prescribed for general rates in relation to the Regional Council area at the time of that collection; and

(c) to general revenue all net rates collected by him during the previous quarter and not paid to the Urban Council or the Regional Council under this subsection.

(2) In this section "net rates", in relation to any quarter in which they are collected, means--

(a) rates lawfully collected during that quarter less any refund of rates made during that quarter under section 30, 31, 35 or 44; and

(b) any sum in addition to rates collected during that quarter

under section 22(2) or (2A) or 29(3),”.

Section 30(5) of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "from general revenue”.

7. Section 36(1)(f) of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting after "Council" the following-

8.

. the Regional Council".

Section 37(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "for the next following year” and substituting the following-

"from the commencement of the year next following".

RATING (AMENDMENT)

Ord. No. 1/86

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9.

The principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "Senior" in sections 38(3), Amendment of 39(3) and 40(3).

sections 38. 39 and 40.

10. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section 50 the Addition of new following--

"Rounding down

of amounts due.

50A. (1) The Collector of Rates may, in respect of any amount payable under this Ordinance in respect of any tenement, round that amount down to the nearest whole dollar and carry the balance forward to the next quarter.

(2) Any balance carried forward under subsection (1) shall be payable-

(a) as if it were rates; and

(b) in addition to any rates,

due in the quarter referred to in subsection (1).

(3) In this section "rates" means rates payable under section 18 or 29.".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 22nd day of January 1986.

LAW Kam-sang,

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.

LAW Kam-sang,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

section 50A