Local Government Amendment Act (No. 3) 1985 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (No. 3).

No. 105 of 1985.

AN ACT to amend the Local Government Act 1960 and to validate the rate imposed by the council of the Town of Albany for the financial year

1985/86.

[Assented to 7 December 1985.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Local Govern- ment Amendment Act (No. 3) 1985.

and principal

Act.

Reprinted aa

(2) In this Act the Local Government Act 1960 is referred to as the principal Act.

approved

24 June 1983

and

amended 99

Acta Noe.6

and 84 of

1983. 17. 29.

42 and 79 of

1984 and II

of 1985.

No. 105.] Local Government (No. 3). 1985.

Commence-

ment.	2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it is assented to by the Governor.
Section 54813
emended.	3. Section 548B of the principal Act is amended by repealing subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection-

4' (2) In subsection (1) "original valuations"

means the valuations on unimproved value last used by the council for rating purposes in respect of the financial year immediately preceding the year mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (1). ".

Validation.	4. (1) The general rate imposed by the council for the financial year commencing on 1 July 1985 shall be deemed to be valid to the extent that it would have been valid if section 3 had come into operation before that rate was imposed.
(2) All actions of the council in assessing and collecting the rate validated by subsection (1) are validated and declared to have been lawful.
(3) All money received by the council in payment of the rate so validated is hereby declared to have been lawfully paid to and received by it.
(4) Such part of the rate so validated as has not yet been paid shall be lawfully payable to the council.
(5) In this section, "council" means the council of the Town of Albany, a municipality constituted under the Local Government Act 1960.