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(1.) After the list has been so declared and delivered, no alteration shall be made in it, except as provided by sections 23 and 25 or to correct merely clerical errors.
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Such errors shall be declared by the Assessor before a Justice of the Peace in the Form No. 4 in the Schedule to this Ordinance, which shall be submitted to the Governor, who may, in his discretion, approve such corrections or any of them, and without whose written sanction no such correction shall be made.
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12(1.) When any tenement is valued for the first time, or when any existing valuation is altered, the Assessor shall, within fourteen days after the completion of the valuation, serve notice in writing on the owner, or on the occupier, if the owner or his agent cannot be found, of such valuation having been made and of the amount thereof.
Form No. 5.
(2.) Such notice may be given in the Form No. 5 in the Schedule to this Ordinance: Provided that this section shall not apply to valuations of tenements in Chinese villages.
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13. The omission to serve such notice shall not invalidate any valuation or relieve any person from the payment of rates.
serve notice.
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14. The list, or an examined copy thereof, shall be open to inspection at the Colonial Treasury during office hours for twenty-one days, of which notice shall be previously given in The Gazette and at least one English and one Chinese public newspaper; and any owner or occupier of any tenement included in such list may, during such twenty-one days, take any extract therefrom.
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15. The Colonial Secretary, on receipt of the list of Chinese tenements for each country district, shall cause a copy thereof to be made (stating only the number of each house, its valuation, and the annual rates) and to be exhibited in a conspicuous place in the principal village of each district during the twenty-one days above mentioned.
Appeal against Valuation.
appeal.
16. (1.) Any person who is aggrieved on any of the following grounds, namely,-
(a) that any tenement for which he is rateable is valued beyond its rateable value; or
(b) that any tenement is assessed which is not rateable; or
(c) that any person who, or any tenement which, ought to be inserted in the list is omitted therefrom; or
(d) that any tenement is valued therein below its rateable value,
may, during the twenty-one days during which the list is open for
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AD 1901.]
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RATING.
[No. 6.
errors.
857
(1.) After the list has been so declared and delivered, no altera- Correction of on shall be made in it, except as provided by sections 23 and 25 or to Correct merely clerical errors.
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Such errors shall be declared by the Assessor before a Justice of the Peace in the Form No. 4 in the Schedule to this Ordinance, Schedule: which shall be submitted to the Governor, who may, in his discretion, Form No. 4. approve such corrections or any of them, and without whose written sanotion no such correotion shall be made.
notice of first
Giving of d
12(1.) When any tenement is valued for the first time, or when any existing valuation is altered, the Assessor shall, within fourteen days after the completion of the valuation, serve notice in writing on the valuation.. owner, or on the occupier, if the owner or his agent cannot be found, of such valuation having been made and of the amount thereof.
Form No. 5.
(2.) Such notice may be given in the Form No. 5 in the Schedule to Schedule: this Ordinance: Provided that this section shall not apply to valuations of tenements in Chinese villages.
su 5.16 13. The omission to serve such notice shall not invalidate any valua- Omission to tion or relieve any person from the payment of rates.
serve notice.
open for
14. The list, or an examined copy thereof, shall be open to inspection at List to be the Colonial Treasury during office hours for twenty-one days, of which inspection. notice shall be previously given in The Gazette and at least one English and one Chinese public newspaper; and any owner or occupier of any tenement included in such list may, during such twenty-one days, take any extract therefrom.
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list for
15. The Colonial Secretary, on receipt of the list of Chinese tenements Exhibition of for each country district, shall cause a copy thereof to be made in Chinese country (stating only the number of each house, its valuation, and the annual district. rates) and to be exhibited in a conspicuous place in the principal village
each district during the twenty-one days above mentioned.
Appeal against Valuation.
appeal. 16. (1.) Any person who is aggrieved on any of the following Grounds of grounds, namely,-
(a) that any tenement for which he is rateable is valued beyond its
rateable value; or
6.) that any tenement is assessed which is not rateable; or (c) that any person who, or any tenement which, ought to be
inserted in the list is omitted therefrom; or
(d) that any tenement is valued therein below its rateable value, may, during the twenty-one days during which the list is open
for
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