1964_RATING_ORDINANCE — Page 6

1987 Ed.]

Rating

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(b) in relation to the Regional Council area, general rates and

Regional Council rates; (Replaced, 1 of 1986, s. 2)

"Regional Council area" has the

meaning assigned to it in the District Boards Ordinance; (Added, 1 of 1986, s. 2)

I "specified area" means any area of Hong Kong declared under

section

"specified form" means a form specified under section 54;

"tenement" means any land (including land covered with water) or any building, structure, or part thereof which is held or occupied as a distinct or separate tenancy or holding or under any licence:

"Urban Council area" has the meaning assigned to it in the

District Boards Ordinance; (Added, 1 of 1986, s. 2)

"valuation list” means any list declared under section 13;

"year" means financial year.

(Amended, 62 of 1974, s. 16)

3. The Governor in Council may, by order, declare any area of Hong Kong to be a specified area for the purposes of this Ordinance.

(Cap. 366.)

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(Cap. 366.)

Application.

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PART II

APPOINTMENT AND POWERS OF COMMISSIONER

4. The Governor may appoint a Commissioner of Rating and Valuation, a Deputy Commissioner, and such Assistant Commis- sioners, Principal Rating and Valuation Surveyors, Senior Rating- - and Valuation Surveyors and Rating and Valuation Surveyors as he

thinks fit.

5. The Commissioner, or any person authorized by him in writing, may-

(a) serve on the owner or occupier of any tenement (whether-

or not the tenement is in a specified area) a requisition in the specified form, requiring him to furnish to the Commis- sioner, within such period of time as the Commissioner may specify in the form, the particulars required by the requisition;

(b) require the owner or occupier of any tenement (whether or not the tenement is in a specified area) to exhibit to him all receipts for rent, rent/books, accounts or other documents whatsoever connected with the rent or value of the tene- ment and may take copies of any receipt for rent, rent- book, account or document as exhibited;

Appointments.

General powers of Commis- sioner.

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