Fire Brigades (Amendment) Act 1974 (NSW)

FIRE BRIGADES (AMENDMENT) ACT.

ANNO VICESIMO TERTIO

ELIZABETHE II REGINE

Act No. 10, 1974.

An Act to provide that certain contributions by councils to the fund established under section 33 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1909, shall be apportioned according to the unimproved capital value instead of the assessed annual value of land; for this purpose to amend the Fire Brigades Act, 1909; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 3rd April, 1974.] BE

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as

follows: —

1. This Act may be cited as the "Fire Brigades

(Amendment) Act, 1974".

2. This Act shall commence on such day as may be appointed by the Governor in respect thereof and as may be notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

3.      The Fire Brigades Act, 1909, is amended—

(a) (i) by omitting from section 35 (1) the words
"assessed annual value" and by inserting
instead the words "unimproved capital value";

(ii)   by inserting in section 35 (3) after the words "said Act on the" the words "unimproved capital value of";

(iii)   by omitting from section 35 (3) the words "Provided that in any poll of ratepayers on a proposal to make such rate, the question shall only be whether the rate shall be on the unimproved or the improved capital value of ratable land, and the question shall not be put whether the rate shall be made" and by

inserting instead the words "Provided that, notwithstanding any provision of the Local
Government Act, 1919, to the contrary, nc
poll of ratepayers shall be taken on the question whether the rate shall be levied";
(b)	by omitting from section 38 the words "assessed annual value, and of".

GOVERNMENT