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BRITISH GUIANA.

ORDINANOE NO.

/ ~ OF 1933.

AN 01\DJNA-XCE further to amend the Tax Ordinance, Chapter 3'1, with respect to the Licences of Insurance Companies and the duties to be paid thereon.

BE it enacted by the Governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Legislativ,;i Council thereof, as follows : - A..D 1993.

1.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Tax Ordinance (No.

2), Short Title.

1933, ant.i sbalJ be construed with the Tax Ordinance, hereinafter Cap.
37. referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

- 2 No,/J".J THE LAWS OF BRITISH GUILV.A.. [A.D, 1933, ... 2.

Section thirteen of the Principal Ordinance it1 hereby repeal& Hepul &nd ~~;~X:.S.:tsec.

and the following is substituted therefor : - 13 of Cap.

37.

Licence for nnd dutiea on insurance companies.
"13.--(1) Every person or company carrying on any life insurance business in the Colony, and any per3on or company who acts in the Colony as the agent of a. person or company carrying on any life insurance business, shall take out ai.. mnual licence and shall pay a duty calculated on the actual amount of the premiums received in the Colony during the year preced ing the year in which the duty i'!I payable at the rate of five dollars for every thousand dollara thereof: provided that the minimum amount of duty shall be five hundred dollars and the maximum amount one thousand dollars and provided further ~ that for the first year in which a company or a person carries on business or acts as agent he sha.11 pay the minimum duty.
(2) Every person or company carrying on any fire and acci dent insurance business or any fire or accident inAUrance busi ness in the Colony shall take out an annual licence and shall pay a duty of one thousand dollars.

(3) Every person or company who acts as the agent of a person or company carrying on any fire and accident insurance business or any fire or accident insurance husiness in the Colony shall take out an annual licence and shall pay a duty of two hundred and fifty dollars."

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'l'his Ordinance shall have effect as from the first clay of January, nineteen hundred anrl thirty-three.

P<J,SSP,d lnJ the Le:;ielative Ooimcil this 28th d,iy of J1,1,ne,1 .f).,,,.,_ /1'_,.h.1, ~,~ 1933 (M,P.

2396/32), ~~ CieltofTiie Council (Acting).

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