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Gövernor with advice of Execu tive Counell to

198088 Owners or occupiers for Po- lice and lighting rates

Rates and assess- ments how to be imposed and when to be pay- able.

ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1863.

Police and Lighting Rates.

annual value, or that any person is omitted out of such list or table, or that the tene- ment of any person is inserted therein below its full and fair annual value, the person so aggrieved may within fourteen days after the publication of such list or table appeal to the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, provided that the person so intending to appeal shall give to the valuator a notice in writing of such appeal and of the cause and matter thereof seven clear days at the least before the holding of the Court at which such ap- peal is to be heard, and in case such person shall appeal on the ground that any person is omitted out of the said list or table, or that the tenement of any person is inserted therein below its full and fair annual value, the appellant shall not only give such notice of appeal to the valuator but shall also give a like notice of appeal to the person so interested in the event of such appeal as aforesaid and the person so interested shall, if he shall desire it, be heard upon the appeal, and the Judge upon due proof of the notice having been given shall hear and determine the matter of the appeal in a sun- mary manner, and shall make such order therein with or without costs to either party as the said Judge shall think proper, and in case the said Judge shall think the appel- lant entitled to relief he shall order the said list or table to be amended in such manner as may be necessary for giving him relief, and in case he shall have appealed on the. ground that the tenement of any person is valued below its full and fair annual value the Judge may order the amount at which such person is rated in the valuation to be altered in such manner as he shall deem just, and the proper officer of the Court shall in each of the cases aforesaid forthwith amend the said list or table accordingly, but the said list or table shall not be invalidated or altered with respect to any other persons named therein, and the determination of the said Court shall be final and conclusive.

12. After the time so fixed for appeal shall have expired, it shall be lawful for the Governor by and with the advice of the Executive Council to assess all owners or occupiers of tenements as hereinafter provided according to the said list or table or amended list or table in the sums necessary to be levied for the purposes of this Ordi- nance, and the rate of assessment so fixed shall be published in the Government Gazette: Provided always that such assessment shall be imposed as from the first day of January in any one year to the first day of January in the year then next succeedin and shall not in any year exceed a rate equal to the expenses of the Police Establish- ment for such year so far as relates to the Police assessment, or a rate equal to one- and-a-half per cent upon the gross amount of the valuation of the tenements included in the Police assessment for the current year so far as relates to the lighting assess- ment, and such assessments shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be respectively called "The Police Assessment" and "The Lighting Assessment."

13. The said rates or assessments may be imposed and levied yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly or at such other times as the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council may think fit, and shall be payable in advance at the office of the Colonial Treasurer at such times as the Governor with the advice of the said Council may ap- point, and at the meeting imposing the same the Governor with the advice aforesaid shall appoint the days on which such rates or assessments shall be payable.