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(2) Each branch or sub-branch premises of a trade or business included in either Part A or Part B of the said schedule shall be deemed to be a separate trade or business, and shall be licensed in accordance with this part of this Ordinance. Trading without license. 34. Any person who commences or carries on any trade or business in breach of this Part of this Ordinance shall be liable to a fine of fifty pounds over and above the amount of the license fee he should have paid. Administrator may declare additional trade or business to require license. 35. (1) The Administrator may at any time, by notice in the Gazette, declare that after a day specified therein (not being earlier than one month from the date of the publication of the Gazette) any additional trade or business shall not be commenced or carried on except in pursuance of a license issued under this Ordinance. (2) Unless otherwise provided in the said notice, any trade or business affected thereby shall be deemed to be added to Part B of the said schedule, and license fee shall be five pounds. Refund of part of license fee. 36. If any licensed trade or business ceases to be carried on before the first day of October in any year the Collector may on the application of the licensee cancel the license and refund to the licensee one half the fee paid by him. Transfer of license. 37. A licensee may transfer his license with the consent of the Collector and upon paying a transfer fee of ss. Cancellation or variations of licenses. 38. (1) The Administrator, by writing under his hand, may order that no new license be granted to any person or class of persons, or that any existing license granted to any person or class of persons be cancelled or varied, if he is satisfied that such an order is requisite for the peace, order, and good government of Samoa. (2) " License " in this section means a license, pass, or permit under this Ordinance or any other ordinance whereunder licenses, passes, or permits are issued. Part V.—Water Rates. Water rates. 39. (1) The owner or occupier of every building which is subject to building-tax shall pay each year to the Collector water rates as hereinafter provided if such building or any part thereof is situated within one hundred yards of any water-main or sub-main laid down for the supply of water to the Town of Apia or its environs. Amount of water rate. (2) The water rate shall be such rate on the capital value of each building as the Administrator shall fix by Proclamation, to be published in the Gazette before the commencement of each year, but with a minimum of five pounds for each building except a building of a capital value not exceeding three hundred pounds, when the minimum payable shall be the sum of two pounds ten shillings. (3) Capital value in this section means the capital value fixed by the Collector for the purpose of building-tax for the then current year. (4) A notice purporting to be signed by the Collector shall be sent to each person liable to pay water rates, as soon as practicable after the publication of the Proclamation specifying the amount payable in respect of each building. Water rates payable yearly in advance. (5) All water rates shall be paid yearly in advance on the first of April next succeeding the publication of the Proclamation. " Owner " includes executor or administrator. (6) In this part of this Ordinance the expression " owner" includes the executor or administrator of any deceased owner. (7) There shall be no reduction or refund of water rates in respect of unoccupied buildings. New buildings or water-mains within 100 yards of building assessed. 40. TTpon the completion of a new building in any year, or if water-mains or sub-mains art; extended to within one hundred yards of any building or a part thereof in any year, the owner or occupier thereof shall be assessed with and shall upon demand pay the water rate for the then current year. Meter may be required. 41. (1) If water is supplied to any person for other than domestic purposes the Collector may, if he thinks fit, require such water to be supplied through a meter to be installed by the Collector. Water supplied through meter. (2) Water supplied through a meter shall be paid for in such manner, at such rates, and at such times as the Administrator may determine ; but such payments shall be additional to the water rates payable under this Ordinance. Water Rates for Native Areas. 42. The Administrator may from time to time make regulations as to the supply of water to Samoan individuals or villages, the levy and collection of rates therefor, the punishment of offences relating thereto, or any other matter in connection therewith, but no fine for the breach of any regulation shall exceed five pounds. Pakt VI. —Other Revenue. (a) Launch and Watermen's Boat Licenses. Licenses : launches and boats. 43. (1) Every person being the owner of a motor-launch or rowing-boat plying for hire, and every person being the owner of a lighter, shall procure aunually from the Collector a license to ply the launch or rowing-boat for hire or to use the lighter. Survey. (2) No such license shall be granted in respect of any launch or rowing-boat which has not been duly surveyed under Proclamation No. 69. Fees. (3) Every such license shall be issued upon the payment of the fee prescribed therefor in the Third Schedule hereto, and shall be for a period terminating on the next succeeding thirty-first day of March.

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