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1950 ORDINANCE No. 21 of 1885 .


Municipal Rates.


Recovery of 24. If any person fail to pay any rates for which he is liable, upon the day
rates.
notified in the Gazette as the day for payment, the Treasurer may recover the same by
suit in the summary jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, together with interest at the
rate of eight per cent. per annum until the day of payment.

Refund of rates.

Refund of rates 25. Whenever any tenement, not being a teuement at Victoria Peak, is unoccupied
for uninhabited
tenement. . during one or more entire months of any quarter in respect of which the rates upon
such tenement were paid in advance, the Treasurer shall refund the rates for such
months .

(2.) When any tenement at Victoria Peak shall, in any year, be continuously
unoccupied from July to December inclusive, the owner shall be entitled
to a refund of the rates paid during such period on account of such
tenement, and for each succeeding entire quarter during which such
tenement shall be continuously unoccupied he shall be entitled to a
like refund.

(3. ) When any tenement at Victoria Peak shall, in any year, be continuously
unoccupied from January to June inclusive, and shall then be occupied,
the owner shall be entitled to a refund of half the rates paid during
such period on account of such tenement.

Mode of obtain 26. Refunds may be obtained in the following manner :
ing refund.
(1.) The owner of any tenement may give notice to the Treasurer that such
tenement is vacant not later than the fifteenth day of any month from
the first day of which it is intended to claim such refund.
(2.) So long as such tenement shall remain continuously unoccupied no
further notice shall be required, but after the re-occupation of such
tenement notice shall again be required as provided for in the preced
ing sub-section.
(3.) The person claiming the refund may, within fifteen days after the expi
ration of the quarter during which the tenement has been unoccupied,
apply to the Treasurer in the form D in the schedule to this Ordinance
for such refund .

(4. ) The Treasurer may refund the rates for one or more entire months
during such quarter if due notice have been given, and if the Treasurer
be satisfied that the tenement was unoccupied during such months,
which he shall ascertain by causing it to be actually inspected from
month to month .
(5. ) In the case of tenements at Victoria Peak no refund shall be made until
the tenement has been continuously unoccupied during two quarters
as hereinbefore provided, after which the refund may be made quar
terly till the tenement is occupied.