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CAP. 101]

Urban Council

[1988 Ed.

Fees for official signatures etc.

41A. (1) The Council may make bylaws prescribing fees, for a public officer's attending to the matters mentioned in subsection (2), to be paid to the Council in cases where-

(a) by any enactment the Council is constituted as an authority for the purposes of that enactment;

(b) any such matter is required or authorized by law and it is the function of a public officer on behalf of the Council to attend to it; and

(c) no fee therefor is otherwise payable to the Council and the enactment does not disallow the charging of a fee therefor.

(2) The matters referred to in subsection (1) are-

(a) the signing of any certificate, authorization, consent, licence, permit or exemption, or any alteration, transfer or renewal thereof, addition thereto or endorsement thereon, or any copy of the same;

(b) the alteration, transfer, endorsement or addition to any certificate, authorization, consent, licence, permit or exemption;

(c) the certification of an extract of a document, book, record or instrument as a true extract thereof;

(d) the issue of a duplicate of a document, as provided for in subsection (3).

(3) Where an enactment requires or authorizes the issue of a document by a public officer on behalf of the Council such officer may issue a duplicate thereof.

(Added 65 of 1979 s. 8)

Reduction etc. of fees and charges

41B. (1) Without limiting any particular power of the Council in that behalf, any fee or charge payable to the Council under any enactment may be, in any particular case and on any special ground—

(a) reduced by the Council or varied by it (but not so as to cause the fee or charge as varied to exceed the original figure);

(b) remitted or refunded in whole or in part.

(2) The power in subsection (1) shall not be exercised in respect of Urban Council rates payable under the Rating Ordinance (Cap. 116).

(Added 65 of 1979 s. 8)

Power to borrow

42. (1) Subject to such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Financial Secretary, the Council may raise a loan or loans, chargeable upon and payable out of the revenues and assets of the Council, of such sums of money as may be required for any capital expenditure of the Council or for the repayment of any loan previously raised for any such purpose.