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The list to be open for inspection at the Colonial Treasury.

List to be exhibited in country districts.

Appeal from rates.

[5 of 1863 s. 11.]

Notice of appeal.

[5 of 1863 s. 11.]

Hearing of appeal.

[5 of 1863 s. 11.]

The Governor in Council to fix the rates of assessment.

[15 of 1883 s. 12.]

ORDINANCE No. 12 of 1875.

Rating.

12. The said list, or an examined copy thereof, shall be open to public inspection at the Colonial Treasury during office hours for fourteen days, of which notice shall be previously given in the Gazette.

Any owner or occupier of any tenement included in the said list may take any extract therefrom without payment.

13. The Colonial Secretary shall cause copies to be made in English and Chinese of the list for each country district, and shall cause the copies to be exhibited in a conspicuous place in the principal village of each district during the fourteen days last above mentioned.

14. If any person feels himself aggrieved by such list on the ground that he is thereby rated for any tenement for which he is not rateable under this Ordinance;

Or that any tenement for which he is rateable is valued beyond its full and fair annual rental;

Or that any person or any tenement that ought to be inserted in such list is omitted therefrom;

Or that any tenement of any person is valued therein below its full and fair annual rental,

The person so aggrieved may, not later than fourteen days after the last day upon which the list is open for inspection, appeal to the Supreme Court in its summary jurisdiction.

15. The appellant shall give to the valuers notice in writing of his intention to appeal, and of the ground of appeal, seven days at the least before the holding of the Court at which the appeal is to be heard;

And when the ground of appeal is that any person or any tenement is omitted from the said list, or that the tenement of any person is inserted therein below its full and fair annual value, the appellant shall also give the like notice of appeal to the person interested in the result of the appeal, and such person may be heard upon the appeal.

16. The Court, upon proof of due notice having been given, shall hear and determine the matter of the appeal in a summary way, and may make such order therein as it thinks proper, with or without costs to any party; and may direct the officer of the Court to amend the said list in such manner as the Court directs; and the officer shall forthwith, in open Court, make the necessary amendments.

The determination of the Court shall be final and conclusive.

Assessment.

17. After the time for appealing has expired, the Governor in Council shall examine the said list, or amended list, and assess all tenements mentioned therein, in the sums necessary to be levied in the ensuing year for the purposes of police, lighting, water, and fire brigade rates; but so that the Police assessment does not, in any year, exceed a rate equal to the expenses of the Police establishment for such year, and that the other assessments do not exceed...