Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Amendment Act 2006 (WA)

Western Australia

Agriculture and Related Resources Protection

Amendment Act 2006

Western Australia

Agriculture and Related Resources Protection

Amendment Act 2006

CONTENTS

1.	Short title	1
2.	Commencement	2
3.	The Act amended	2
4.	Section 58 amended	2
5.	Section 60 amended	2
6.	Section 61 amended	3
7.	Section 63 amended	3
8.	Schedule deleted	3

Western Australia

Agriculture and Related Resources Protection

Amendment Act 2006

No. 6 of 2006

An Act to amend the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection

Act 1976.

[Assented to 12 April 2006]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1.             Short title

This is the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection

Amendment Act 2006.

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2.             Commencement

This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives

the Royal Assent.

3.             The Act amended

The amendments in this Act are to the Agriculture and Related

Resources Protection Act 1976*.

[* Reprinted as at 15 October 1999.

For subsequent amendments see Western Australian

Legislation Information Tables for 2004, Table 1, p. 13.]

4.             Section 58 amended

Section 58(1)(b) and (c) are each amended by deleting “zonal”.

5.             Section 60 amended

(1)

Section 60(1) is amended by deleting “1976” and inserting

instead —

“ 2006 ”.

(2)

Section 60(2) is amended by deleting “general”.

(3)

Section 60(3) to (5) are repealed and the following subsections

are inserted instead —

“

(3)

The Protection Board, with the approval of the

Minister, may, by notice published in the Gazette on or

before the 30 June immediately preceding a financial

year to which this section applies, impose in respect of

that financial year rates in respect of land held under

pastoral lease.

(4)

A rate imposed under subsection (3) —

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(a)	must be imposed upon the unimproved value of land to which the rate applies; and
(b)	must not be at a rate exceeding 10 cents in the dollar of the unimproved value of land.

(5)

All rates imposed under subsection (3) in respect of

land that is in the same zone must be at the same rate.

(6)

All rates imposed under subsection (3) in respect of

land that is not in a zone must be at the same rate.

(7)

Despite the amendments made by the Agriculture and

Related Resources Protection Amendment Act 2006,

this Act, as in force immediately before the day on

which that Act comes into operation, continues to

apply in relation to a rate payable for a financial year

commencing before 1 July 2006.

”.

6.             Section 61 amended

Section 61(1) and (2) are each amended by deleting “zonal”.

7.             Section 63 amended

Section 63(2) is amended as follows:

(a)	by deleting “general”;
(b)	by deleting “zonal”.

8.             Schedule deleted

The Schedule is deleted.