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Persons acting under said Ordinances, to continue to discharge duties till otherwise directed.
Governor may appoint persons to carry this Ordinance into execution, and allow them such remuneration as he may deem reasonable.
Valuation to be made between the 1st day of August and 15th day of November in each year, ... unless Governor notify that then existing valuation is to stand wholly or in part.
Valuators may in execution of this Ordinance require occupier or owner to furnish particulars of the rent or annual value of any tenement and may enter the same.
Penalty for preventing such entry or refusing to furnish correct particulars.
Annual value how to be ascertained.
ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1863.
Police and Lighting Rates.
2. All persons heretofore appointed or acting under the said Ordinances shall, and they are hereby authorized and required, notwithstanding the passing of this Ordinance, to continue to discharge and execute their several duties and offices for the purpose of carrying this Ordinance into execution, without any further or other appointment thereto until the Governor shall otherwise direct.
3. Upon the death, resignation or removal of such persons it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to nominate and appoint other fit and proper persons for the purpose of carrying this Ordinance into execution, and to allow them for the performance of their duties, in that behalf, such remuneration as the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council shall direct, and some one or more of the persons so appointed as aforesaid shall at such times and in such manner as hereinafter provided make or cause to be made a valuation of the tenements in this Colony or such part thereof as the Governor with the advice of the Council aforesaid may at any time direct and appoint.
4. Such valuation shall be made at any time between the first day of August and the fifteenth day of November both inclusive in each year unless the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, should deem it expedient to permit any existing valuation to stand and be adopted wholly or in part for the year then next succeeding, in which case due notice of his intention shall between the days aforesaid be given in the Government Gazette; Provided always that such valuation whether adopted wholly or in part only shall for the purposes of appeal be considered as a new valuation.
5. It shall be lawful for any person continued or appointed under this Ordinance to require the owner or occupier of any tenement to furnish him with such particulars as are set forth in form I in the schedule hereunto annexed, and from time to time to enter into and upon such tenement for the purpose of making any valuation authorized by this Ordinance; Provided always that in every case in which it shall be necessary for any such person to enter any tenement, and when the owner or 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 permitted 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; Provided also that in every case in which such owner or occupier shall refuse or fail to furnish such particulars for the space of one week from the day on which he shall have been required so to do or shall knowingly furnish false or incorrect particulars, or shall after the expiration of the notice aforesaid hinder obstruct or prevent any person continued or appointed under this Ordinance from entering or inspecting any such tenement he shall be liable on conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
6. 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 to be separately valued and such valuation shall be made upon an estimate of the gross
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Persons acting under said
Ordinances, to
continue to
discharge duties
till otherwise
directed.
Governor may appoint persons to carry this
Ordinance into execution, and allow them such remuneration as he may deem reasonable.
Valuation to be made between the 1st day of
August and 15th day of November
in each year, .. unless Governor notify that then existing valuation is to
stand wholly or in part.
Valuators may in execution of this Ordinance require occupier
or owner to fur- nish particulars of the rent or annual value of any tenement
and may enter the same.
Penalty for pre- venting such entry or refusing to furnish cor- rect particulars.
Annual value how to be ascertained.
ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1863.
Police and Lighting Rates.
2. All persons heretofore appointed or acting under the said Ordinances shall, and they are hereby authorized and required, notwithstanding the passing of this Ordi- nance, to continue to discharge and execute their several duties and offices for the purpose of carrying this Ordinance into execution, without any further or other appoint- ment thereto until the Governor shall otherwise direct.
3. Upon the death, resignation or removal of such persons it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to nominate and appoint other fit and proper persons for the purpose of carrying this Ordinance into execution, and to allow them for the performance of their duties, in that behalf, such remuneration as the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council shall direct, and some one or more of the persons so appointed as aforesaid shall at such times and in such manner as hereinafter pro- vided make or cause to be made a valuation of the tenements in this Colony or such part thereof as the Governor with the advice of the Council aforesaid
may at any time direct and appoint.
4. Such valuation shall be made at any time between the first day of August and the fifteenth day of November both inclusive in each year unless the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, should deem it expedient to permit any existing valuation to stand and be adopted wholly or in part for the year then next succeeding, in which case due notice of his intention shall between the days aforesaid be given in the Government Gazette; Provided always that such valuation whether adopted wholly or in part only shall for the purposes of appeal be considered as a new valuation.
5. It shall be lawful for any person continued or appointed under this Ordinance to require the owner or occupier of any tenement to furnish him with such particulars as are set forth in form I in the schedule hereunto annexed, and from time to time to enter into and upon such tenement for the purpose of making any valuation authorized by this Ordinance; Provided always that in every case in which it shall be necessary for any such person to enter any tenement, and when the owner or 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 permitted 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; Provided also that in every case in which such owner or occupier shall refuse or fail to furnish such particulars for the space of one week from the day on which he shall have been required so to do or shall knowingly furnish false or incorrect particulars, or shall after the expiration of the notice aforesaid hinder obstruct or prevent any person continued or appointed under this Ordinance from entering or inspecting any such tenement he shall be liable on conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
6. 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 to be separately valued and such valuation shall be made upon an estimate of the gross
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