Rating and Valuation Department List of Records by Category
Administration Records
| Administration | Advertisement and Publicity |
| Ceremonial & Dress | |
| Correspondences | |
| Departmental Instruction | |
| Departmental Records | |
| Departmental Relations & Responsibilities | |
| Departmental Reports | |
| Executive and Legislative Councils | |
| File and Filing System | |
| General Circulars & Regulations | |
| Government Gazette | |
| Law & Legislation | |
| Library | |
| Manual of Office Practice | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Office Accommodation | |
| Office Administration | |
| Office Cleaning | |
| Organisation of Government and Commonwealth Departments | |
| Periodicals & Publications | |
| Press Comments | |
| Printing | |
| Security Circulars & Regulations | |
| Security of Office | |
| Statistics | |
| Telephone & Telecommunication | |
| Translation | |
| Transport |
| Finance | Audit |
| Control of Expenditure | |
| Estimates | |
| Finance & Accounting Circulars & Regulations | |
| Handling & Safe Custody of Cash | |
| Payments & Imprests |
| Personnel | Awards & Commendations |
| Conditions of Service | |
| Conduct and Discipline | |
| Conferences and Meetings | |
| Establishment and Strength | |
| Establishment/CSB Circulars & Regulations | |
| Leaves | |
| Medical and Dental Facilities | |
| Passages | |
| Posting | |
| Promotion | |
| Quarters | |
| Recruitment and Appointment | |
| Salaries and Allowances | |
| Staff Development and Training | |
| Staff Lists | |
| Staff Report | |
| Termination of Services | |
| Voluntary Services | |
| Welfare & Staff Associations |
| Supplies | Control and Supervision of Stores |
| Office Equipment | |
| Store Circulars & Regulations | |
| Stores |
Records related to Rating and Valuation
| Audits & Reviews | Capital Valuation Audit |
| Consultations, Conferences, Committee - Review | |
| Filing System of Headquarter and Support Services Division - Review | |
| Legal Opinion/Precedent Records System -Review | |
| Miscellaneous Systems Review/Audit issues | |
| Prevailing Market Rents Assessed by Rent Control Division - Audit | |
| Property Information System - Review | |
| Rating - Audits & Reviews | |
| Record Plans System - Review | |
| Record Systems for Rural Properties - Review | |
| Rental Information Input Audit | |
| Spot Checks on Valuation Work in Rating Divisions - Review | |
| Standard Valuation Adjustments - Review | |
| Systems Review | |
| Work Measurement System - Review |
| Buildings, Streets & Places | Building Names |
| Building Record Index | |
| Buildings Ordinance - Naming of Streets & Numbering of Building | |
| Buildings Ordinance Office | |
| Buildings Ordinance Office Permit - Control | |
| Buildings Subject to Closure Orders | |
| Chinese Nomenclature of Floors in Buildings | |
| Chinese Place Names - Standard Romanisation | |
| Geographical Place Names Board | |
| Government Buildings | |
| Index of Street, House Numbers & Lots | |
| Naming of Streets | |
| Numbering of Buildings | |
| Schedule of Various Types of Building in the Urban Areas |
| Committees, Conferences & Working Groups | Building Numbering - Quarterly Meetings |
| Coding of Tenement - Working Group | |
| Computer Committee | |
| Computerised Rates System - Meetings with Treasury | |
| Conference of Heads of Commonwealth Valuation Departments | |
| Consultations, Conferences, Committees - Review | |
| Consumer Council - Tenancy Agreements Ad Hoc Committee | |
| Data Capture Exercise Meeting | |
| Divisional Meetings | |
| Executive Directorate Committee Meeting - Progress of Work Statistics | |
| Information Technology Advisory Liaison Group | |
| International Valuation Conference | |
| Meetings with other Government Departments | |
| Office Efficiency Committee | |
| Professional Policy Committees | |
| Progress Meeting - Computer Development Unit | |
| Property Information Services - Working Groups | |
| Provision of Land for Commercial Offices - Working Group | |
| Redevelopment of Rates Revaluation System Progress Meeting with Treasury | |
| Rental Advice | |
| Report of the Public Works Sub-committee - Review | |
| Revaluation Committee | |
| Revaluation Meeting | |
| Revaluation Planning & Steering Group | |
| Revaluaton | |
| Salint Steering Committee | |
| Salint System - Advisory Group Meetings | |
| Slum Clearance - Working Group | |
| Special Committee on Land Supply | |
| Special Interim Teams | |
| Special Project Teams for Systems Review Assignment | |
| Transfer of Functions of Collector of Rates | |
| Urban Renewal & Environmental Improvement Re-housing Sub-committee | |
| Urban Renewal Meetings | |
| Valuation Committee | |
| Working Party to Study the Feasibility of Phasing out of VMNBs |
| Economic Aspects | Consumer Price Index Reports by Census & Statistics Department |
| Fact Sheets | |
| Hang Seng Economic Monthly | |
| Hong Kong Economic Indicators by Standard Chartered Bank | |
| Hong Kong Economic Report by Hong Kong Bank | |
| Hong Kong Economic Trends & Indices by Census & Statistics Department | |
| Household Expenditure Survey | |
| Interest Rates | |
| Licensing of Money Lenders | |
| Press Release from Hong Kong Monetary Authority | |
| Quarterly Estimates of Gross Domestic Product | |
| The Economy - Press Cuttings | |
| World Bank Mission |
| Estate Duty | Appeals |
| Estate Duty Ordinance | |
| General | |
| List of Long Outstanding Cases Prepared by Estate Duty Commissioner | |
| Monthly Return of Estate Duty Valuations from Crown Lands & Survey Office | |
| Statistics | |
| Valuation - Review |
| General Revaluations | Annual Valuation |
| Audits & Reviews | |
| General Revaluations | |
| Press Cuttings | |
| Revaluation Committee | |
| UK Rating/Community Charge/Council Tax |
| Government Policies | Application for Forward Sales of Uncompleted Flats Under the Consent Scheme |
| Consent to Forward Sales/Assign/Lease and Certificate of Compliance | |
| Defence | |
| English School Foundation - Handover of Government English School | |
| Franchise for Sight-seeing Tours on Lantau Island | |
| Government Departmental Land Allocation Preparation & Recording of Plans | |
| Land Administration Policy | |
| Land Authority's Consent Scheme - Monitoring Report for residential units | |
| Management Charges for Government Accommodation in Private Development | |
| Misuse of Multi-storey Buildings | |
| Privatisation of Management of Government Quarters | |
| Purchase of Domestic Properties | |
| Ten-year Housing Programme 1973-1983 | |
| The Transfer of Title to Flats and Land from Civil Servants' Co-operative Building Societies and Government Built Housing Schemes to their Individual Members and Underlessees | |
| Town Talk | |
| White Paper on the Future of Hong Kong - Media Comments & Reactions in Hong Kong |
| Land Matters | Crown Land Permits & Tenancy Agreements (Unrated or Exempt) |
| Crown Lease - Newly Issued | |
| Crown Lease Renewal Premises by Instalment | |
| Crown Rent Roll | |
| Crown Rents & Rateable Values - Monthly Returns from Lands Department, Handbook and Procedure | |
| Government Land or Building Occupied under Agreement | |
| Land Registration Regulations - Proposed Amendments | |
| Land Transactions Procedures | |
| Lands Department's Return of Annual Rent in respect of Non-renewable Leases extended under Annex III of the Sino-British Joint Declaration | |
| Ordinances | |
| Permits | |
| Property Reverted to the Crown after Expiry of Leases | |
| Provisional Sales Forecast Programme | |
| Rating of Wall Stalls & Other Structures Occupying Crown Land | |
| Record of Lot Numbers with Date of Expiry of first period of Lease Term | |
| Renewable Leases (75 years or more) | |
| Short Term Tenancies - Tender Results | |
| Sino-British Agreement Annex III - Renewal of Non-renewable Crown Leases |
| Landlord & Tenant | Background to Tenure & Rent Restrictions in Hong Kong |
| Computerised Rent Control Project | |
| Costs & Charges for Air Conditioning & Other Services | |
| Fines in Rating Ordinance Cap. 116 and Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance Cap. 7 | |
| Landlord & Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance | |
| Leasing Division - Agreed Terms | |
| Legal Aid Ordinance Cap. 91 - Availability of Legal Aid to Tenants in Proceeding under Landlord & Tenant (Consoliation) Ordinance Cap. 7 | |
| Rent Control Miscellaneous Comments & Representations on Landlord & Tenant | |
| Rent Control Statistics | |
| Rent Increases Advisory Panel | |
| Rent Increases Control - Petitions to the Governor-in-Council | |
| Rental Advice | |
| Rents Ordinance |
| Laws & Legal Matters | Appeals |
| Bills & Ordinances | |
| Case Law | |
| Court Fees | |
| Injunctions, Certiorari, Mandamus | |
| Laws in Chinese | |
| Legal Opinion and Precedent | |
| List of Solicitors Firms | |
| Practice Lands Tribunal Sessions | |
| Private Property Agents - Practice | |
| Subpoenas | |
| Training of Prosecution Officers and Appointment of Public Prosecutor Under Section 13 of Magistrate Ordinance Cap. 227 |
| Maps & Plans | Acquisition of Building Plans |
| Development Plan - Preparation | |
| Government Departmental Land Allocation Preparation & Recording of Plans | |
| Layout Plans Prepared by Lands Department - Schedules | |
| Record Plans System - Review | |
| Requisition of Plans and Maps from Lands Department | |
| Survey Plans and Maps | |
| Topographical Maps prepared by Lands Department | |
| Town Planning Plans | |
| Water Supply Plans |
| Miscellaneous | Budget Proposals from the Taxation Institute of Hong Kong |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Miscellaneous Press Cuttings | |
| Poll Tax - UK Community Charge | |
| Queries from the Public | |
| Talks by Officers of Department |
| Office Organisation and Administration | Audits & Reviews |
| Checking System in Clerical Sections of Rating Divisions | |
| Departmental Progress Report | |
| Discussion Forums with Technical Officers | |
| Newsletter from CRV | |
| Rent Control Division | |
| Spot Checks on Vacant Tenement Inspections & Review of Valuation Work in Rating Division | |
| Strategic Plan on Computer Development | |
| Support Services Division | |
| Work Measurement |
| Other Departments & Organisations | Australian Government - Inquiries regarding Rent |
| British Council - Office Accommodation | |
| Building Authority - Requests for Names & Address of Ratepayers | |
| China Motor Bus Co. Ltd. & Kowloon Motor Bus Co. Ltd. - Valuation of Properties | |
| Construction Industry Training Centre | |
| Consumer Council - Tenancy Agreements Ad Hoc Committee | |
| Hong Kong Housing Authority Commercial Properties Statistics | |
| Hong Kong Polytechnic - Development of Computerised Property Data Bank & Reimbursement of Rates | |
| Inter-departmental Coordination | |
| Liaison with other Government Departments | |
| Mass Transit Railway - Compensations, Records of Rental Reduction & Rates Losses & Gazetted Street Alterations | |
| Newsletters of other Government Departments | |
| Post Office Operation Accounts - Rent and Rates | |
| Rental Advice for Other Government Departments | |
| Subvented Organisations - Rating and Valuation Services | |
| Supply of Rental and Stamp Duty Statistics to Other Departments | |
| United Nations Organisation - Exemption from Rates | |
| Valuations for other Government Departments |
| Practice & Procedures | Areas Requiring Tenement Survey - Urban Village Areas |
| Capital Valuation | |
| Coding of Tenements | |
| Correction of Errors (Amendment Forms) | |
| Deletion of Assessments | |
| Departmental Instructions | |
| Handbook | |
| Interim Valuation | |
| Metrication | |
| Notification of Changes of Ratepayer's Name and/or Address | |
| Practice Notes | |
| Records | |
| Returns Prepared by Clerical Sections | |
| Rolling Programme/Data Capture | |
| Standard Method of Measurement of Tenements | |
| Standard Valuation Adjustments - Review |
| Press Cuttings & Publicity | Building Number Publicity Campaign |
| Chinese Press Reports | |
| Economy | |
| General Market Commentary - Press Cuttings | |
| Godown/Storage | |
| Infrastructure | |
| Land Policy/Land Value | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Property in China - Press Cuttings | |
| Property Market | |
| Property Tax | |
| Rating | |
| Rating and Valuation Department's Letter to Press Editors | |
| Rent Control | |
| Rent Questionnaire | |
| Reported Funding Arrangements | |
| Serviced Apartments |
| Property Information | Building Costs |
| Composite Industrial/Office Building | |
| Directory of Authorised Persons & Registered Structural Engineers | |
| Government Leased Accommodation Notified by Government Property Administrator | |
| Hong Kong Property Market Reports and Reviews | |
| Hong Kong Property Review | |
| Prices | |
| Property Information Bulletin | |
| Property Information Services | |
| Property Information System | |
| Property Review & Capital Valuation Project Definition Study | |
| Rents | |
| Sale of Surplus Owned Quarters | |
| Survey of Construction Output | |
| The Hong Kong Property Exchange Limited | |
| Vacant Industrial Premises Available for Sale/To Let - Particular |
| Property Tax | Appeal to the Board of Review Property Tax Assessments - Policy and Case File |
| Appeals against Property Tax Assessments | |
| Data Base System | |
| Exemption | |
| General | |
| Handbook | |
| International Symposium on Property Tax | |
| Objections to Assessable Values - Register | |
| Provision of Assessable Value | |
| Refund | |
| Request for Assessable Values from Inland Revenue Department | |
| Review of Assessable Value | |
| Statistics | |
| Tenement Exempt from Assessment to Rates |
| Rating | Appeals |
| Areas and Districts - Boundaries and Nomenclature | |
| Audits & Reviews | |
| Computerised Rates System | |
| Exemption | |
| Extension of Rating to the New Territories and Exemption of Village Houses | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Multiple Properties Ratepayer Schedule System for Reviewing Rates Subvention Procedures | |
| Quasi-government and Subvented Organizations in Government Owned/Leased Premises | |
| Rates | |
| Rating (Amendment) Ordinance 1981 | |
| Rating (Mis. Exemptions) Order 1981 Implementation | |
| Rating Areas & Rating Districts | |
| Rating Ordinance | |
| Refund of Rates | |
| Relief | |
| Subvention & Reimbursement | |
| Tenements | |
| Valuation | |
| Valuation List |
| Records | Capital Valuation Records |
| Central Records Unit - Technical Secretariat | |
| Filing Systems of Headquarter and Support Services Division - Review | |
| Land Data Bank | |
| Legal Opinion/Precedent Records System - Review | |
| Note Book Index - Amendments | |
| Pre-war Rating Records | |
| Rating - Computerised Valuation Records of Properties Recording of Valuation Information Computer Assisted Valuations Instruction | |
| Rating Records - Re-referencing & Standardisation of Existing Records | |
| Record Plans System - Review | |
| Record Systems for Rural Properties - Review | |
| Valuation Folders & Valuation Files | |
| Valuation Records | |
| Visible Margin Note Books |
| Stamp Duty | Appeals |
| General | |
| Legal Opinion and Precedent | |
| Monthly List of Long Outstanding Cases prepared by the Collector of Stamp Revenue | |
| Stamp Duty Ordinance - Amendments | |
| Stamp Office Interpretations and Practice Notes | |
| Statistics Analysis by Price Brackets | |
| Valuation |
| Statistics | Applied Valuation - Statistics |
| Building Ordinance Office - Statistics | |
| Coding of Tenements - Statistics | |
| Departmental Statistics - Instructions to Staff | |
| Estate Duty - Statistics | |
| General | |
| General Revaluation | |
| Land Registry Statistics | |
| Objection Statistics | |
| Pressure on Accommodation - Statistics | |
| Progress of Work Statistics | |
| Property Market - Quarterly Statistics | |
| Property Tax - Statistics | |
| Rateable Value - Statistics | |
| Rating Appeal - Statistics | |
| Rent Control Statistics | |
| Rent Control Statistics from Form RIA return | |
| Sale Prices - Statistics | |
| Stamp Duty Statistics Analysis by Price Brackets | |
| Supply of Rental and Stamp Duty Statistics to Other Departments |
| Surveys | Annual Analysis of Rents and Rateable Value, Sample Survey |
| Areas Requiring Tenement Survey - Urban Village Areas | |
| Construction Output - Survey | |
| Household Expenditure Survey by Census and Statistics Department | |
| Miscellaneous Commercial Premises - Rapid Survey | |
| Pre-war Building | |
| Private Housing Survey |
| System Computerisation | Building Record Index - Computer |
| Commercial Requests for Data | |
| Computer Activities & Application | |
| Computer Committee | |
| Computer Development Strategic Plan | |
| Computer Development Unit Progress Meeting | |
| Computer of Rating and Valuation Department | |
| Computer Usage - Data Processing Agency | |
| Computerised Property Data Bank in Hong Kong Polytechnic - Development | |
| Computerised Valuation | |
| Data Preparation Submission Form to Information Technology Services Department | |
| Data Protection and Access to Information | |
| Development Progress Monitoring System | |
| Exception Listings Program | |
| General Revaluation | |
| Indexation & Value Estimation | |
| Information on Rated Properties - New V1 Screen | |
| Information System Strategy Study | |
| Integration of Computer Data Input | |
| Interim and Capital Valuation System - Computerised | |
| Interim Procedures - Computerisation | |
| Key Punching Volume Estimates | |
| Land Data Bank ( Land Information System) | |
| Master File Tape Extract | |
| Micro User Guide | |
| Micro-computer - Proposal System | |
| Micro-computer Development ( Headquarter) | |
| Microfiche of Valuation List | |
| Module - Data Entry and Requisition | |
| Programming - Specification and Practice Notes | |
| Property Information System | |
| Property Review & Capital Valuation Project Definition Study | |
| Property Tax Data Base System | |
| Rates Systems - Computerised | |
| Rating - Computerised Valuation Records of Properties Recording of Valuation information Computer Assisted Valuations Instruction | |
| Rent Control Project - Computerised | |
| Rental Entries - Form RIA | |
| Requests for New Computerisation Projects | |
| Shop Analysis - Computerised | |
| Special Run to Check Building Marker | |
| Storage and Retrieval of Historical Data | |
| Street Index Reference for Assessment Numbers - Compilation | |
| Tape Register - Computer | |
| Tertiary Planning Unit Issue | |
| Treasury Rental File Updating - Tran 26 Automation | |
| Use of Optical Character Recognition System in Data Preparation | |
| Valuation and Input Forms - Tran 89 |
| Town Planning | Central Parkway |
| Comprehensive Review of the Town Planning Ordinance | |
| Development - Plan Preparation | |
| Green Island Reclamation Feasibility Study | |
| Harbour Reclamation & Urban Growth Study for Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, New Kowloon and Related Areas | |
| Hong Kong Planning & Standards Guidelines (HKPSG) | |
| Housing Board | |
| Improvement of Squatter Areas | |
| Land Administration Policy | |
| Land and Redevelopment Opportunities for High-class Housing | |
| Land Development Corporation | |
| Land Exchange Entitlement & Compensation Rates for Resumed Land in the New Territories | |
| Land Policy/Land Value - Press Cuttings | |
| Land Supply - Special Committee | |
| Provision of Land for Commercial Offices - Working Group | |
| Public Works Programme - Quarterly Progress Reports by Architectural Office | |
| Siu Chai Wan Development | |
| Slum Clearance - Working Group | |
| Territory Development Strategy | |
| Town Planning Plans | |
| Town Planning Reports | |
| Urban Renewal |
| Valuation | Applied Valuation |
| Capital Valuation | |
| Computerisation | |
| Development Sites - Break Even Analysis | |
| Discounted Cash Flow | |
| Fees for Valuation Work | |
| General | |
| Mass Appraisal Techniques of the Taxation of Land (Multiple Regression Analysis) | |
| Method of Valuation - Contractor's Test | |
| Occasional Papers | |
| Pattern Valuing | |
| Practice Notes | |
| Rating | |
| Spot Checks on Valuation Work in Rating Division - Review | |
| Valuation Committee | |
| Valuation Progress Checks | |
| Valuation Requests Charging Order Work Contracted out to Private Solicitors |