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2.15 to 5.00
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Reporter:
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of Audit and with us and every time we discuss this, it is going to be - "Why are you not assessing the rates which it is your legal right to assess?" Either make a decision on whether in the
administration's view rates should be assessed and collected on market stalls by Urban Council and Regional Council, or check with Government's legal advisers whether the Government can collect rates from Regional Council and Urban Council as a lump-sum in view of their now trying to increase the rent and in a way, passing the buck. So from a legal point of view, can that be done?
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CRV:
Legally Mr Chairman, the answer is "No"
unless we amend the Ordinance.
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MR POON:
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We are trying to follow it; the difficulty here is within the Urban Services Department, it is politically difficult to ask the hawkers and whatnot to pay the rates. have pinpointed both alternatives, and even if the law says you can't assess rates on the Urban Council and Regional Council, there is no impediment to amend the law in such a way that the general revenue is compensated equivalent to the rates that the Council collects.
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MR CHEONG:
Or a sum agreed between the two parties?
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CHAIRMAN:
so I would leave it at that!
Well, first we have to deal with the law,
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MR CHEONG:
Can I simply, just to try and understand
it a little bit more, ask a couple of questions? The current review on the hawker and market policies presumably has been completed, is that it, and that leads towards your good news initially about a programme of implementation of increased stall rentals?
SMS:
That has been partially completed Sir, because the one issue that I reported on is market rentals, but the other side of it, on hawkers inclusive of hawker licence fees and
enforcement policies, that is still awaiting the results of the current
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