Supplement jBo. 2 to C^e $ale$tme d3a?ette &o. 956 of 21£t September, 1959.
DEFENCE (MILITARY COMMANDERS) REGULATIONS, 1938.
NOTICE.
IN VIRTUE of the powers vested in me by the Defence (Military Commanders) Regulations, 1938, I, MICHAEL GEORGE HENRY BARKER, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Lieutenant-General Commanding the Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan, with the consent of the High Commissioner, do hereby appoint MAJOR GEORGE WYNDHAM CLAUDE MONTGOMERY to be Military Commander of the Area or Place known as the Jordan Valley, namely that portion of the Jordan Valley which is within the boundaries of Palestine less such portion thereof as is situate within the Area or Place known as the Jerusalem District, from the eighteenth day of September, 1939, and until further notice, vice MAJOR RAYMOND SWINBURNE YARDE BULLER, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
M. G. H. BARKER Lieutenant-General, General Officer Commanding, 15th September, 1939. British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
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PORTS ORDINANCE.
IRAQ PETROLEUM COMPANY CONVENTION AND AGREEMENTS ORDINANCE, 1939.
RULES MADE BY THE HIGH COMMISSIONER IN COUNCIL.
IN EXERCISE of the powers vested in him by section 17 of the Cap. 114. Ports Ordinance and by Article 8 of Part I of the Second Schedule to the Iraq Petroleum Company Convention and Agreements Ord• No. 30 of 1939. inance, 1939, and all other powers enabling him, the High Com• missioner in Council has made the following rules :—
Citation. 1. These rules may be cited as the Petroleum (Loading and Discharging at Haifa) Rules, 1939.
Interpretation. 2. For the purpose of these rules —
(a) "Petroleum" and "Dangerous Petroleum" shall have the definitions ascribed to them in the Petroleum Regulations, Cap. 143. 1934, made under the Trades and Industries (Regulation) Ordinance;
(b) "Petroleum Ship" shall mean any ship having on beard or constructed to carry petroleum as cargo.
GENERAL. 3. The Iraq Petroleum Company Limited, hereinafter referred to as the Company, shall have facilities in the Port of Haifa for loading crude petroleum from (a) submarine loading berths, and (b) the oil dock in Haifa Harbour. 4. The OIL DOCK forming part of the Harbour at Haifa, and that part of the water surface in the Bay of Acre, demarcated by appropriate beacons on land, some one and half miles north of the Harbour of Haifa and reserved for loading from SUBMARINE PIPELINES, are within the zones of the operations of the Iraq Petroleum Company Ltd., and are hereby declared DANGER ZONES. 5. Petroleum ships shall advise their prospective movements by wireless as soon as they can make contact with shore installa• tions, but wireless communication is forbidden during loading and discharging operations. 6. While loading or discharging, petroleum ships at the sub• marine berths or the oil dock shall fly a red flag by day or exhibit a red light at night, situated not less than 20 feet above the deck so that the signal shall be visible all round the horizon. This shall apply also when loaded petroleum ships are moved in or out of the oil dock. — 861 —
7. No craft excepting tugs or launches of a type approved by the Company shall ply to ships at anchor within the zones reserved for submarine pipeline loading or in the oil dock.
8. Tugs manoeuvring petroleum ships containing dangerous petroleum or ships not certified gas free shall also be treated as dangerous vessels and shall fly a red flag by day or exhibit a red light by night from a conspicuous position, and shall observe generally and so far as they apply the safety precautions as laid down in these rules.
9. Ships using the submarine loading berths or the oil dock shall arrive with clean ballast, and a declaration in accordance with form Appendix A shall be filled in by Masters of Petroleum Ships entering Port water, certifying that the water ballast which it is intended to discharge within the Port limits is entirely free of oil. Ashes, oil, oily water, or other refuse shall not be dis• charged overboard at the submarine berths or in the oil dock or within Port limits.
10. Vessels' scuppers shall be effectively plugged during load• ing and discharging operations. Leakage or spillage aboard ship shall not be swept or washed overboard.
11. Petroleum ships may undertake loading and discharging operations at any hour.
12. Loading or discharging shall not commence until :— (a) The Master or Chief Officer has certified in writing to the responsible shore official that all necessary valves are open and that the ship is in a proper condition to receive or dis• charge cargo, and (b) The Master or Chief Officer has certified in writing that all ships' seacocks are closed or blank flanged except those required for water circulation purposes, and that these pre• sent rules are being and will be observed.
13. Throughout the period of loading and discharging opera• tions, the following conditions will be enforced :— (a) A responsible ship's officer shall be on watch on board; (b) A capable member of the ship's crew shall be stationed by the ship's control valves to which the loading or discharging hoses are connected; (c) A responsible member of the shore staff shall stand by the valves at the shore end of the pipes.
14. No lamps, electric or otherwise, except of a standard type approved by a recognised Ships' Classification Society or an Tnsu- ranee Company, or an appropriate Government authority, as the case may be, shall be used either on board or within the danger zones. Wandering leads may not be used on ships, or within the Company's shore or oil dock areas, except of an approved arm• oured type electrically continuous with the lamp holder, and in such cases the use of wandering leads must receive the special authority of a responsible Company's official.
15. Stores shall not be unloaded or taken on board vessels whilst loading or discharging petroleum except with the Company's permission.
16. Chipping, scaling and scrapping of steel work, or any work likely to cause sparks, shall be prohibited on any ships berthed at the submarine berths or in the oil dock. No iron or steel hammers or other instruments capable of causing a spark shall be used for the purpose of opening or closing the hatches or tank lids of Pet• roleum ships. In the event of any urgent repair work being necessary before the vessel sails, prior written authority shall be obtained from the Company before such work is done.
17. No person shall be allowed within the Company's shore or oil dock areas, unless in possession of a pass signed by an autho• rised official of the Company.
18. No person shall carry into the Company's danger zones matches, automatic lighters or any appliance whatsoever for pro• ducing ignition, and all persons entering these zones are liable to be searched for such articles.
19. The Company's uniformed watchmen are invested with special powers and may detain anyone loitering in the precincts of the oil dock or of the Company's shore areas.
20. The Port Manager or his representative shall have power to board ships lying within the danger zones to ensure that loading and discharging regulations are faithfully observed.
21. In special circumstances the Company may consider it necessary to impose additional safety measures or restrictions in respect of ships loading or discharging at the submarine lines and in the oil dock, and in such cases Masters of ships shall conform thereto.
OIL DOCK.
22. Ships using the oil dock shall enter and leave under their own power assisted by tugs. Such ships when in ballast shall go alongside with the minimum quantity of ballast which shall be pumped ashore into ballast tanks. Fires shall be thoroughly — 863 — extinguished as soon as ships are moored and ballast, if any, dis• charged, and thereafter shore steam shall be used.
23. No naked light or fires shall be allowed on any ship along• side the berths in the oil dock during loading and discharging operations.
24. Galleys and messrooms are provided on shore adjacent to the oil dock for use of ships' personnel and crews.
25. Smoking is prohibited on ships in the oil dock and within the prohibited fenced areas of the oil dock.
26. Ships berthed in the oil dock shall establish and maintain telephonic communications with the shore station with which they are working and the telephone shall be tested from time to time.
27. The boom shall be closed across the entrance of the oil dock at all times except when vessels are entering or leaving the oil dock and no pumping of petroleum products from ship to shore or vice versa shall be allowed whilst the boom is not in a closed position.
SUBMARINE LOADING BERTHS.
28. Communications from submarine loading berths to shore are by telephone, flag, light and whistle signals. Weather condi• tions may on occasion make the telephone contacts less serviceable at the submarine berths so that ships should in addition to the telephone, establish and maintain shore communications by means of visual or sound signals. All means of communications should be tested from time to time while ships are at loading berths.
29. Ships shall enter and leave the submarine berths under their owm power. At the discretion of the Master, a ship's main boilers and donkey boilers, fires and galley fires may remain alight during loading operations at the submarine berths.
30. Smoking is prohibited in ships at the submarine berths during loading operations except in such places as are sanctioned by the Master, in consultation with the Mooring Master.
MISCELLANEOUS.
31. Nothing in these rules contained shall be deemed to pre• judice or determine in any way any question as to the rights of priority of the Company in the oil dock. — 864 —
32. These rules are supplementary to and do not exempt from compliance with the Petroleum Regulations, 1934, so far as they are applicable.
33. A copy of these rules in the three official languages shall be hung in every installation.
A. N. LAW 11th September, 1939. Clerk to the Executive Council. (C/322/37)
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ORDINANCE, 1934.
BY-LAWS MADE BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF PETAH TIQVA UNDER SECTION 99.
IN VIRTUE of the powers vested in them under section 99 of the Municipal Cor• porations Ordinance, 1934, the Municipal Council of Petah Tiqva have made the following by-laws :— Citation. 1. These by-laws may be cited as Petah Tiqva (Demolition of Dangerous Buildings) By-laws, 1939.
Interpretation. 2. In these by-laws, unless the context otherwise requires : "Building" means any construction whether of stone, concrete, mud, iron, wood, tin or any other materials and includes any foundation, wall, roof, chimney, verandah, balcony, cornice or projection or part of a building or anything affixed thereto or any wall, earthbank, fence, paling or other con• structions enclosing or delimiting or intended to enclose or delimit any land or space. "Ordinance" means the Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1934. "Council" means the Municipal Council of Petah Tiqva. "Mayor" means the Mayor of Petah Tiqva. "Engineer" means any person appointed by the Council as a Municipal Engineer. "Owner" means the person who is in receipt of the rents or other profits from any building whether on his own account or as an agent or trustee. "Occupier" means any person in actual occupation of any building and includes any tenant or sub-tenant. Inspection of 3. —(1) The Council shall cause an inspection to be made from dangerous time to time by the Engineer, or some other competent person or buildings. persons, of buildings which may be in a dangerous state, and the Engineer, or person or persons carrying out the inspection shall — 865 —
make a report to the Council as to the safety or otherwise of such buildings. (2) The owner of any building shall take the necessary measures for the maintenance of his building in such manner as to ensure the safety of the occupiers and the public and he shall be held res• ponsible for the proper keeping of the premises in a safe condition.
(3) Where it is known to the owner or the occupier of any build• ing that the building is in a dangerous state he shall inform the Council of the state of the building and the Council shall require a survey to be made of such building by the Engineer or by some other competent person or persons.
4. —(1) If any building is deemed by the Council as a result of Action to be the report of the Engineer or person or persons carrying out the taken by the Council. inspection to be a dangerous building, the Council shall cause im• mediate measures to be taken by reinforcement, shoring up or fencing of such building, for the protection of the public and shall cause notices in writing to be served on the owner and occupier of the building requiring such owner and occupier immediately to take such action as shall be specified in such notice. (2) If the owner or occupier on whom the notice is served shall not have begun to take the measures required by the notice within 5 days after service of such notice, or if no owner or occupier is found, the Council shall takei such action as may be deemed neces• sary to remove the danger whether by demolition or by repair of the building or otherwise. (3) If any work shall be executed contrary to the instructions of the Council as contained in a notice, the Council may by notice in writing require the person who has caused the work to be executed or the owner or occupier to take such measures as may be specified in the notice, and if, within the time specified, compliance is not made therewith, the Council may cause the Engineer to take the necessary measures. 5. When a building has been certified by the Engineer to be in Emergency such a state as to constitute an immediate danger to the inhabit• measures. ants thereof or to the public, the Mayor may, with the approval of the District Commissioner, Lydda District, order the immediate closure of such building and the Mayor may, if the owner of the building does not take immediately such measures as may be re• quired by the Engineer, whether by reason of the owner not being found or otherwise, cause the Engineer to take such measures as he may deem necessary to remove the danger, whether by demoli• tion or repair of the building or otherwise.
6. All expenses incurred by the Council in connection with the Expenses. measures indicated in sections 4 and 5 of these by-laws shall be — 866 —
paid by the owner of the building and shall be recoverable by the Council in the same manner as arrears of municipal rates. Power of 7. The Engineer or any other person authorised in writing by entry. the Mayor may upon giving reasonable notice, enter any building for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of these by-laws.
Penalties. 8. Any person who :—
(a) refuses or neglects to carry out any measures required by the Council or the Mayor under these by-laws, or carries out such work not in accordance with the instructions of the Council or the Mayor, or
(b) otherwise contravenes the provisions of these by-laws, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds for any one offence and in the case of a continuing offence to an additional fine not exceeding two pounds for every day during which such offence is continued after conviction.
Notices. 9. —(1) When a notice is to be served under these by-laws on any person, such notice may be served by forwarding the notice by registered post to such person at his usual or last known place of abode or business premises.
(2) The notice required by these by-laws to be served on the owner or occupier of any building shall be deemed to be properly addressed if it be addressed by the description of "Owner" or "Oc• cupier" of such building without further adding any other name, title or description.
SHLOMO SHTAMPFER Mayor of Petah Tiqva.
Confirmed.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. S. MACPHERSON" 9th September, 1939. Chief Secretary. (G/135/39)
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ORDINANCE, 1934.
BY-LAWS MADE BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OP MAJDAL UNDER SECTION 99.
IN EXERCISE of the powers vested in them by section 99 of the No. lof 1934. Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1934, the Municipal Council of Majdal have made the following by-laws :— — 867 —
1. These by-laws may be cited as the Majdal Municipal Citation'. (Amendment) By-laws, 1939. 2. In these by-laws, the term "principal by-laws" shall mean Interpretation. the Majdal Municipal By-laws, 1937. 3. The following by-law shall be inserted in the principal by• Insertion of new by-law in laws as by-law 8A :— the principal "Fish and quail 8A. There shall be a municipal market for by-laws. market. ngjx an^ quajis situated north west of the market in the vicinity of the Grand Mosque of Majdal and bounded on the :— East : By a straight line stretching from the north of the eastern corner of the souk to the shops of Haj Saleh Abu Ramadan and to the north eastern corner of the shops of Wakf Bl Hussein.• West : By the shops of Mohammed Yusif Bl Hindi, the Jora road, and the Khan property of the Awkaf. North : By the shops of Mohammed Yusif El Hindi, Mohammed Esh Sheikh Abd- allah Al Ostaz, Ibrahim El Khalil and Haj Saleh Abu Ramadan. South : By the shops of the Wakf of the Mosque and Wakf El Hussein.
4. The first schedule to the principal by-laws shall be amended Amendment of by the addition of the following items under the heading "MISCEL• first schedule to the principal LANEOUS" :— by-laws. "Milk Sour Milk Butter Fresh Butter Cheese All kinds of Jams Fish Quails."
5. The second schedule to the principal by-laws shall be Amendment of amended as follows :— the second schedule to the (a) The following item shall be added at the end of paragraph principal by• 2 thereof:— laws. Mils "(o) for each lorry load of lime 250" (b) the following paragraphs shall be added after paragraph 5 thereof :— — 868 —
"6. The following fees shall be charged upon the vendor of all fish or quails brought to the fish and quail market :— 10% of the price of the fish or quails.
7. The following fees shall be charged upon the vendor of all milk, sour milk, butter, fresh butter, cheese and jam brought to the municipal market. 5% of the price of such commodities."
YUSEF NI.JIM Mayor of Majdal. Confirmed.
By His Excellency's Command, J. S. MACPHERSON 12th September, 1939. • Chief Secretary. (G/32/35)
ROADS (WIDTH AND ALIGNMENT) ORDINANCE.
ORDER BY THE HIGH COMMISSIONER IN COUNCIL UNDER SECTIONS 3, 4, AND 5.
IN EXERCISE of the powers vested in him by section 3 of the Roads Cap. 129. (Width and Alignment) Ordinance, the High Commissioner in Council has ordered that the said Ordinance shall be applied to the roads set out in the first column of the Schedule hereunder. AND the High Commissioner in Council has further ordered, in exercise of the powers vested in him by section 4 of the said Or• dinance, that no permanent work of improvement shall be carried out within the distances set out in the second column of the said Schedule, measured from the centre of the respective road.
AND the High Commissioner in Council has further ordered, in exercise of the powers vested in him by section 5 of the said Or• dinance, that the aforementioned roads shall be widened respectively to the widths set out in the third column of the said Schedule, and that the alignment of these roads shall be in accordance with the alignment of the said roads as already constructed.
A. N. LAW 15th September, 1939. Clerk to the Executive Council. (W/31/89) — 869 —
SCHEDULE.
Distance in metres from Width of Description of road centre of road in road metres
1. From a point on the North Frontier Road 1 km. east of Sa'sa to Junction with Acre—Safad Road at Km. 216.3. 10 20 2. From a point near Al Malikiya Village on the North Frontier Road to the Military Camp at Malikiya 10 20 3. Km. 207.8 of Acre—Safad Road to Jabal Canaan (Qiryat Sara). 10 20 4. From a point near Sammu'i on Acre—Safad Road to Ein el Tina (Safad Water Supply Road) 10 20 5. Beit Alpha—Nir David—Farwana—Tirat Zwi 10 20 6. From Beisan Railway Station crossing the Beisan— Samakh Road to a Junction with Beisan—Jisr Sheikh Hussein Road 10 20 7. Km. 227.8 on Acre—Safad Road to Kafr Inan— Mughar—Ailabun—Deir Hanna—Arraba—Sakhnin —Miar—Shaab—Birweh—Km. 251.439 on Acre— Safad Road 10 20 8. Km. 139.609 on Jenin—Megiddo—Haifa Road passing Umm el Zinat to Khirbet el Manshiya— Bat Shlomo to a Junction with Zichron Ya'aqov— Fureidis Road 10 20 9. Karkur Village to a Junction with Hadera—Lajjun —Affula Road 10 20 10. Ahuzat Sir H. Samuel—El Khareiba—Isfiya— Daliat el Carmil 10 20 11. Km. 104 on Jerusalem—Nazareth Road—Qabatya— Tubas—Junction with Nablus—Jisr Damiya Road at Wadi Beidan " 10 20 12. Nablus—Qiryat Jitt—'Azzun—Qalqilya 10 20 13. Junction with Nablus—Qalqilya Road—Qiryat Jitt to Kafr Qaddum 10 20 14. Tulkarm—Baqa el Gharbiya—Junction Hadera— Affula Road near Karkur Police Post 10 20 15. Deir al Ghusun village to a Junction with Tulkarm —Baqa el Gharbiya Road 10 20 16. Km. 99.150 Jerusalem—Nazareth Road—Firasin— Baqa el Gharbiya to a Junction with Tulkarm— Karkur Road 10 20 17. Junction Hadera—Affula Road at Ain Ibrahim!— Umm el Fahm—Yabad—Junction Baqa el Gharbiya Road 10 20 — 870 —
Distance in metres from Width of
Description of road centre of roa^m road metres
18. Junction Firasin—Baqa el Gharbiya Road to Qaffin Village 10 20 19. Kafr Rai—Fahma—Arraba to a Junction with Road from Baqa el Gharbiya to Jenin—Nablus Road 10 20 20. Junction Jerusalem—Nazareth Road—Huwwara— Marda—Biddiya—Kafr Qasem—Ras el Ain Rail• way Station. 10 20 21. Junction Huwwara—Ras el Ain Road at Kafr Qasem to Junction Ras el Ain—Majdal Yaba Road near Majdal Yaba 10 20 22. Km. 61.465 Lydda Airport Road to Tel Litvinsky 10 20 23. Km. 52.374 Lydda Airport Road to Railway Level Crossing near Kfar Jinnis Halt 10 20
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ORDINANCE.
ORDER, NO. 109 OF 1939, BY THE HIGH COMMISSIONER UNDER SECTION 4(3).
IN EXERCISE of the powers vested in him by subsection (3) of section 4 of the Medical Practitioners Ordinance, and after due compliance having been made with the provisions of that subsection, the High Commissioner has ordered that the licences held by the under-mentioned persons as medical practitioners under the said Ordinance shall be cancelled by reason of the holders thereof being no longer entitled to remain permanently in Palestine.
Name of Medical Practitioner Licence No.DR.
MACLENNAN, NORMAN MACPHERSON 1052 MEYER, LUDWIG 2344
By His Excellency's Command,
J. S. MACPHERSON 18th September, 1939. Chief Secretary. (M/63/86) — 871 —
POLICE ORDINANCE.
APPOINTMENT BY THE ACTING INSPECTOR-GENERAL, PALESTINE POLICE FORCE AND PRISONS SERVICE.
IN EXERCISE of the powers deputed to me by the High Commissioner, by notice under section 22 of the Interpretation Ordinance, published in Supplement No. 2 to Palestine Gazette No. 436 of the 26th April, 1934, I hereby appoint Temporary British Inspector L. M. MACKEY, to exercise the powers of a superior police officer as specified in section 17 of the Police Ordinance.
A. J. K1INGSLEY-HEATH 12th September, 1939. Acting Inspector-General.
SURVEY ORDINANCE.
NOTIFICATION UNDER SECTION 10.
Surveys for the preparation of plans of certain lands in the under-mentioned village are about to be made :—
Village Sub-District Localities
Khisas Safad All
2. Persons claiming ownership of land in the said village will be required to demarcate the boundaries of their claims, with permanent marks, when called upon to do so.
M. C. BENNETT Acting Commissioner for Lands 11th September, 1939. and Surveys.
PRESS ORDINANCE.
NOTICE OF GRANT OF A PERMIT TO PUBLISH A NEWSPAPER.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a permit No. S/169 has been granted on the eleventh day of September, 1939, under the hand of the District Commissioner, Lydda District, to IBRAHIM EFF. YEHYA SHANTI, residing at Jaffa, to publish daily at the 'A1 Difa'a Commercial Printing Press situated at Jaffa, Old Governorate Street, a newspaper in the Arabic language, entitled " 'Al Difa'a", treating of political, literary, social and pictorial subjects and under the editorship of SHAWKAT EFF. YOUSEF HAMMAD.
Dated this 14th day of September, 1939. O. M. TWEEDY for Chief Secretary. • (K/5/34) — 872 —
PRESS ORDINANCE.
NOTICE OF CHANGE IN A PERMIT GRANTED FOR THE PUBLICATION OF A NEWSPAPER.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the following change in the permit dated the 20th July, 1937, and published in the Palestine Gazette No. 707 of the 29th July, 1937 :
MISS PAULA BAUM has been appointed as secretary to the PALNEWS CO., in lieu of MR. ISRAEL WAKS. O. M. TWEEDY 16th September, 1939. _ for Chief Secretary (K/128/33)
PRESS ORDINANCE.
NOTICE OF CHANGE IN A PERMIT TO KEEP A PRINTING PRESS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the following change in the notice dated 7th August, 1939, and published in the Palestine Gazette No. 911 of 17th August, 1939.
MR. DAVID KRETCHMER and not, as was previously stated, MR. KEHAT RABINO- WITZ has been appointed the Managing Director and Secretary of the 'Ahduth' Printing Press instead of MR. PINHAS SHUKHMANN. O. M. TWEEDY 16th September, 1939. for Chief Secretary.
URBAN PROPERTY TAX ORDINANCE.
ORDER, NO. 110 OF 1939, BY THE HIGH COMMISSIONER.
IN EXERCISE of the powers vested in him by section 10(1) and section 19(6) of the Urban Property Tax Ordinance, the High Commissioner has established an Assessment Committee for the Urban Area of Tiberias and has appointed the fol• lowing persons as members thereof :
Official Members : SALEH EFF. QADDURA—Chairman. FUAD EFF. NUWEIHAD.
N on-Official Members : MUHAMMAD EFF. QASIM SHAHIN. MR. NESSIM HADDAIF.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. S. MACPHEKSON 16th September, 1939. Chief Secretary. (*74/39) — 873 —
URBAN PROPERTY TAX ORDINANCE.
ORDER, NO. Ill OF 1939, BY THE HIGH COMMISSIONER.
IN EXERCISE of the powers vested in him by section 17 (1) of the Urban Property Tax Ordinance, the High Commissioner has appointed an Appeal Commission in the Urban Area of Tiberias, and has appointed the following persons as members thereof :
Official Members : KHULUSY EFF. KHAIRI—Chairman. ANTON EFF. KHABBAZ.
Non-Official Member : MR. SHIM'ON DAHAN.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. S. MACPHERSON 16th September, 1939. Chief Secretary. (F/4/39)
URBAN PROPERTY TAX ORDINANCE. .
NOTICE.
IT IS HEREBY notified that the valuation of properties and the preparation of a valuation list under section 3(1) of the Urban Property Tax Ordinance will com• mence in Benei Beraq on the 1st October, 1939. The actual dates in respect of each assessment block will be notified at the time by notice published within the block.
2. Reputed owners and tenants are required by law to give the Assessment Committee all information which they may require and to produce any documents regarding the cost of construction of buildings, rents and ownership of property, etc.
3. Objections to the net annual value in the valuation list should be submitted on the prescribed form within 30 days from the date of the Gazette in which the notice of publication of the list is made.
4. Appeals should be submitted on the printed form to the District Officer with a copy to the Local Inspector of Valuations, within 14 days from the date of noti• fication of the decision on the objection.
5. Forms of objections or appeals can be obtained free of charge at the District Offices. — 874
6. Attention is invited to section 28 of the Ordinance in accordance with which persons who refuse to admit Members of Committees or Inspectors to enter any premises or who refuse to give the information required or who give false informa• tion are liable to prosecution.
7. The particular attention of the public is also drawn to section 8(3) of the Ordinance in regard to the exemption of newly constructed house property.
G. G. GRIM WOOD for Acting District Commissioner, 12th September, 1939 Lydda District.
TOWN PLANNING OEDINANCE, 1936.
JERUSALEM DISTRICT BUILDING AND TOWN PLANNING COMMISSION.
JERUSALEM BUILDING BY-LAWS.
IN EXERCISE of the powers vested in them by section 4 of the No. 28 of 1936. Town Planning Ordinance, 1936, the Jerusalem District Building and Town Planning Commission have made the following by-laws :—
Citation and 1. These by-laws may be cited as the Jerusalem Building commencement. (Amendment) By-laws, 1939, and shall be read as one with the principal by-laws as hereinafter defined, and shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Gazette.
Interpretation. 2. In these by-laws the term "principal by-laws" shall mean the principal by-laws as defined in the Jerusalem (Town Planning) (Amendment) By-laws, 1936, dated the 1st August, 1936, and published in the Gazette No. 619 of the 6th August, 1936, as amended by by-law 3 of those by-laws, by the Jerusalem Building (Amendment) By-laws, 1937, and by the Jerusalem Building (Amendment) By-laws, 1938.
Amendment of 3. By-law 3 of Section 9 ("Construction") of the principal by• by-law 3 of laws shall be amended by the deletion of the word "external," ap• Section 9 of the pearing in the first line thereof. principal by-laws. Insertion of new 4. The following by-law shall be inserted in Section 9 ("Con• by-law in Section struction") of the principal by-laws immediately after by-law 3 9 of the prin• thereof :— cipal by-laws. — 875 —
"3A. The external walls of all buildings shall be constructed of stone unless the approval in writing of the Jerusalem District Building and Town Planning Commission has been first obtained for the use of any other material in any parti• cular case."
C. T. EVANS for Chairman, Jerusalem District Building and Town Planning Commission. Confirmed.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. S. MACPHEESON 15th September, 1939. Chief Secretary. (Z/169/85)
LAND (SETTLEMENT OP TITLE) ORDINANCE.
ORDER BY THE HIGH COMMISSIONER UNDER SECTION 69(1).
IN EXERCISE of the powers vested in him by section 69(1) of the Land (Settlement of Title) Ordinance, the High Commissioner Cap. 80. has made the following Order :—
1. This Order may be cited as the Settlement of Title (Regis• Citation. tration Fees) (Amendment) Order, 1939, and shall be read as one with the Settlement of Title (Registration Fees) Order, hereinafter referred to as the principal Order.
2. Paragraph 2 of the principal Order shall be amended by the Amendment of deletion of paragraph (c) thereof and the substitution of the follow• paragraph 2 of the principal ing paragraph therefor :— Order. "(c) on the registration of a mortgage, or of a transfer of a mortgage the fee prescribed in the Transfer of Land (Fees) Rules, 1935".
By His Excellency's Command,
J. S. MACPHEESON 12th September, 1939. Chief Secretary. (L/60/39) — 876 —
LAND (SETTLEMENT OF TITLE) ORDINANCE.
NOTIFICATION OF INTENDED SETTLEMENT.
THE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the settlement of rights to land in the area described hereunder in the Haifa Sub-District is about to commence. Any person claiming an interest in the lands mentioned hereunder or in the lands of adjoining villages which abut on the boundaries of the lands mentioned hereunder, should act in the manner prescribed in the Land (Settlement of Title) Ordinance :
DESCRIPTION.
The lands of Haifa comprising Haifa Urban Assessment Blocks Nos. 43, 45, 46, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 84 and 91. The notices issued under the Ordinance may be inspected at the following places :— Office of the Settlement Officer, Haifa Settlement Area, Haifa; Office of the District Commissioner, Haifa District, Haifa; Office of the District Officer, Haifa Sub-District.
M. C. BENNETT Acting Commissioner for Lands 8th September, 1939. and Surveys.
LAND (SETTLEMENT OF TITLE) ORDINANCE.
NOTIFICATION OF COMMENCEMENT OF SETTLEMENT.
THE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the settlement of rights to land in the village scheduled hereunder will commence on or about the date stated in the schedule. Any person claiming an interest in the lands of the said village or in the lands of adjoining villages which abut on the boundaries of the village mentioned in the schedule hereunder should act in the manner prescribed in the Land (Settle• ment of Title) Ordinance.
The notices issued under the Ordinance may be inspected at the following places:— Office of the Settlement Officer of the Area. Office of the District Commissioner of the District. Office of the District Officer of the Sub-District. In the village. — 877 —
Settlement Officer of Approximate District Village Sub-District the Area date of com (Office at) mencement
Huleiqat Gaza Gaza Gaza 25th Septem (excluding the ber, 1939. (on area־built
M. C. BENNETT Acting Commissioner for Lands 15th September, 1939. and Surveys.
LAND (SETTLEMENT OF TITLE) ORDINANCE.
NOTICE OF POSTING OF SCHEDULES OF RIGHTS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the schedules of rights to land in the localities and settlement areas scheduled hereunder, and for the registration blocks mentioned, have been posted at the offices of the Area Settlement Officers concerned and at the District Offices of the Sub-Districts in which the localities are situated, in accordance with section 33(2) of the Ordinance.
Settlement Settlement Offficer of Nos. of Re Locality Sub-District Area the Area gistration (Office at) Blochs
Jaffa Jaffa Jaffa Jaffa 7169
El Faluja Gaza Gaza Gaza 1565, 1670, 1574, 1575, 1585, 1600, 1608 and 1609.
M. C. BENNETT Acting Commissioner for Lands 12th September, 1939. and Surveys.