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Repairs allowance.
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23.—(1) Where tax is charged upon annual value estimated otherwise than by relation to profits, the following provisions shall have effect:—
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(a) in the case of an assessment on any lands or on any farmhouse or farm buildings occupied together with any lands for the purpose of farming such lands, the amount of the assessment shall, for the purposes of collection, be reduced by a sum equal to one-eighth part thereof; and
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(b) in the case of an assessment upon any premises being industrial buildings or structures within the meaning of section 255, the amount of the assessment shall, for the purposes of collection, be reduced—
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(i) where the owner is occupier or chargeable as landlord, or where a tenant is occupier and the landlord undertook to bear the cost of repairs, by a sum equal to one-third of that amount; and
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(ii) where a tenant is occupier and undertook to bear the cost of repairs, by such a sum, not exceeding one-third of that amount, as may be necessary to reduce it to the amount of rent payable by him.
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(2) Where the amount of the assessment in a case to which subsection (1) (a) applies is more than one-eighth, or in a case to which subsection (1) (b) applies is more than one-third below the rent, after deducting from such rent any outgoing which should by law be deducted in making the assessment, the reductions referred to in subsection (1) shall not be made.
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