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(3) Where under section 3 the Governor in Council declares a specified area (in this subsection called "the new specified area") that includes the whole or part of a specified area in respect of which a list is in preparation under subsection (1), such list shall be the list in preparation for the new specified area. (Added, 33 of 1981, s. 9)

(4) A list referred to in subsection (1) may be prepared in legible or non-legible form. (Added, 33 of 1981, s. 9)

13. The Commissioner shall, when he has completed the preparation of a list under section 12, sign a declaration that, to the best of his knowledge and belief, the list contains a true account of the addresses, descriptions and rateable values of every tenement included therein.

14. (1) Subjeet to subsection (1A), a list declared under sec- tion 13, as amended from time to time, shall be the valuation list, for the specified area to which it relates, for the year next following the date of the declaration and thereafter until a new valuation list comes into force. (Amended, 33 of 1981, s. 10)

(IA) Where under section 3 the Governor in Council declares a specified area (in his subsection called "the new specified area") that includes the whole or part of a specified area in respect of which a list has previously been declared under section 13, then, until such time as a new valuation list comes into force in respect of the new specified area, the list previously declared shall be the valuation list for the new specified area. (Added, 33 of 1981, s. 10)

(2) A list declared under section 13 shall be delivered to the Collector of Rates by the Commissioner. (Amended, L.N. 419/87)

14A. (1) A valuation list may be maintained by the Collector of Rates in legible or non-legible form, and if maintained in non-legible form-

(a) any alteration, amendment, correction, deletion or inser- tion required or permitted under this Ordinance in respect of the list may be made in non-legible form; and

(b) the currect entry in rsepect of any tenement in the list shall

be capable of being reproduced in legible form.

(2) A document purporting to be a copy of or extract from a valuation list or any record of any alteration, amendment, correc- tion, deletion or insertion in respect of such list and purporting to be certified by the Commissioner or the Collector of Rates or by any person authorized by either of them in that behalf shall be admissi- ble in evidence in any proceedings under this Ordinance on its production without further proof, and-

(a) until the contrary is proved the court or tribunal before

which such document is produced shall presume

(i) that the document is certified by the Commissioner or the Collector of Rates, or by a person authorized by either of them in that behalf, as the case may be; and

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Verification of lists.

Declared list to be valuation list.

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Form and proof of valuation list.