Section 17

The officer holding the office of Comptroller of Property Tax is hereby empowered to grant licences under the provisions of this Act.

Every licence granted under this Act shall be granted under the hand of the Comptroller of Property Tax.

The issue of any licence shall be notified as soon as possible in the Gazette.

On every such licence there shall be paid in money by the person taking out or renewing the licence to the officer empowered to grant the licence, such fee as may be prescribed by the Minister in respect of the class of licence to which the licence belongs, and no licence shall be granted or renewed under this Act until such fee has first been paid.

The Minister may from time to time prescribe such fees as are referred to in subsection (4) by order to be published in the Gazette and may prescribe different fees for different classes of licences.