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of

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH MAY, 1863.

IV. Such Valuation shall be made at any time between the

and the

day of

131

day Valuation to be made between the day

both inclusive in each year, unless the of

and

in each

Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, shall deem it expedient to permit day of unless Governor any existing Valuation to stand, in which case due notice shall, between the days afore-notify that then exist sail, be given in the Government Gazette that such lastmentioned Valuation is to stand ing Valuation is to and to be adopted as and for the Valuation of the year then next succeeding, in which case such Valuation shall be considered to all intents and purposes as a new Valuation.

stand.

any Tenement in Exe-

V. It shall be lawful for any Person continued or appointed under this Ordinance Valuators may enter from time to time to enter into and upon any Tenement for the purpose of making any cution of this Ordi- Valuation authorized by this Ordinance: Provided always that in every case in which nauce.

or

it shall be necessary, for any such Person to enter any Tenement and when the Owner Occupier thereof shall oppose or refuse to allow such entry, such Person shall give One Day's Notice to the Owner or Occupier of such Tenement requiring to be per- mitted to enter the same and at any reasonable time after the expiration of such Notice it shall be lawful to make such entry, such Person doing as little damage as may be in the execution of the powers hereby granted.

Tenements to be

valued separately upon

VI. In every Valuation to be made under the provisions of this Ordinance the Person so appointed to make such Valuation as aforesaid shall cause every Tenement an estimate of the net to be separately valued and such Valuation shall be made upon an estimate of the net Annual Value. Annual Value thereof, that is to say, the rent for which, (One Year with another) the same might in its actual state be reasonably expected to let from Year to Year, but deducting therefrom the probable average annual costs of the Repairs, Insurance and other Expenses (if any) necessary to maintain it in a state to command such Rent.

Valuator to dis- tinguish all Religious

for Charitable Pur-

sessment.

VII. In making out the Lists or Tables of Valuation hereinafter mentioned the Valuator shall distinguish all Religious Edifices, Hospitals, Cemeteries and Tenements Edifices, Houses of a or portions of the same of a public nature or used for Charitable purposes or for the public nature or used purposes of Science, Literature or Fine Arts as specified in an Act of the Imperial poses, &c., which shall Parliament made and passed in the Session thereof holden in the Sixth and Seventh be exempted from As- Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Thirty-six, and the value of the same shall be deducted from the gross amount of the Valuation of the Tenements com- prised in such Lists or Tables, and all such Edifices, Hospitals and Cemeteries and all such Tenements or portions of the same so distinguished and deducted shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed exempt from all Assessment whatever so long as they shall continue to be exclusively of a Religious or public nature, or used exclusi- vely for the purposes aforesaid.

At the time of the

VIII. At the time of the making of such Valuation or, as soon thereafter as con- making of Valuation, veniently may be, the Persons so appointed to make such Valuation shall leave or cause &c., notice thereof in to be left with the Occupier of the Tenement so valued or with some Person resident writing to be given to therein a Notice in writing of such Valuation having been made and of the amount amount thereof. thereof.

Occupier and of the

when completed to be

is to be subscribed

IX. When and as soon as the Valuation of the Tenements so directed to be made Lists of Valuation as aforesaid shall be completed the Person so appointed to make such Valuation shall laid before Governor prepare and make out a List or Table of the several Tenements so valued and of their at the foot of which respective Valuations and shall lay the same before the Governor and shall at the foot declaration that the of such List or Table make and subscribe in the presence of the Governor or Colonial Secretary a Declaration to the effect that the same contains a true account of all Valu- and is in other res- ations made by such Person and that the said List or Table is to the best of his know- pects correct. ledge and belief correct in all other particulars.

same contains an ac- count of all Valuations

List or Copy to be deposited with liberty

of

a Tenement to in-

spect such List or Ta- ble.

X. The Governor shall cause to be deposited with some Person such List or Table or an examined Copy thereof, and notice of the place where the saine may be inspected to Owner or Occupier shall be published in the Government Gazette and any Person in whose custody such List or Table or Copy thereof may be shall at any reasonable time within Days from the publication of such Notice permit every Owner or Occupier of a Tenement included therein to inspect the same and take any extracts therefrom without payment of any fee or reward on that behalf.

List or Table to the

XI. If any Person shall think himself aggrieved by such List or Table on the Parties allowed to ground that such List or Table includes any Tenement for which he is not rateable appeal against such der this Ordinance, or that it places his rateable Tenement beyond its full and fair Court of summary anal value, or that any Person is omitted out of such List or Table, or that the Te. Jurisdiction. Etent of any Person is inserted therein below its full and fair annual value, the Person

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