1964_NEW_TERRITORIES_LEASES_(EXTENSION)_ORDINANCE — Page 8

1988 Ed.]

New Territories Leases (Extension)

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"old schedule lot" means land held under a block lease granted by, or on behalf of, the Governor to the persons described in the schedules to those leases;

"similar rural holding" includes land granted to an indigenous villager in place of other land previously held by him;

"small house" means land held under a lease granted under the Small House Policy; and

"village lot" means land granted before the operation of the Small House Policy, for the extension or improvement of an established village.

(4) Where any question arises in any proceedings as to whether or not this section applies to a lease or an interest in a lease, a certificate purporting to be signed by the Director of Buildings and Lands stating any fact relating to that question shall be admissible in evidence on its mere production and shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.

PART IV

MISCELLANEOUS

Breaches of covenants

10. Nothing in this Ordinance shall constitute a waiver of any right arising out of a breach of a covenant committed before the appointed day.

Power to make regulations

11. The Governor in Council may by regulation-

(a) provide for ascribing rateable values to land not already rated;

(b) provide for ascribing rateable values to undivided shares in land, taking into account any right to exclusive use of a building, part of a building or part of the land attached to those undivided shares;

(c) provide for the manner of assessment of rateable values and the apportionment of those rateable values (including rateable values under the Rating Ordinance (Cap. 116)) to different parts of tenements, land or undivided shares in land:

(d) provide for the apportionment and collection of rent, with the rates or otherwise, in accordance with those rateable values (including apportionment to different parts of tenements, land or undivided shares in land);

(e) provide for the primary liability to pay rent under a lease extended by this Ordinance and the right of the person with that primary liability to recover that rent, or part, from owners;

(f) provide for modification of any lease in relation to the manner or time of payment, the collection and apportionment, of rent;

(g) provide for exemptions from the obligation to pay rent under a lease extended by this Ordinance;