Metropolitan Region Improvement Tax Act Amendment Act 1966 (WA)

1966.] Metropolitan Region Improve- [No. 31.

ment Tax.

METROPOLITAN REGION

IMPROVEMENT TAX.

No. 31 of 1966.

AN ACT to amend the Metropolitan Region

Improvement Tax Act, 1959-1965.

[Assented to 27th October, 1966.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, 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 Metropolitan and citation.

Region Improvement Tax Act Amendment Act,

1966.

Act No, 69

(2) In this Act the Metropolitan Region Improve- of 1959 as amended

ment Tax Act, 1959-1965 is referred to as the

by Acts Nos.

37 of 1961 and

principal Act.

113 of 1965.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Metropolitan Region Improve-

ment Tax Act, 1959-1966.

No. 31.] Metropolitan Region Improve- [1966.

ment Tax.

S. 3

amended.	2. Section three of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "thereafter" in line four, the passage, "up to the year of assessment ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven".
S. 4

added. 3. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section three a section as follows-

Rate of tax

imposed after 4.

For the year of assessment ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight, and for each year of assessment thereafter, the rate of the tax referred to in section two of this Act and imposed and payable as provided in that section shall be one-quarter of one cent for every dollar of the unimproved value, as assessed by or under the Metropolitan Region Town Plan- ning Scheme Act, 1959, and the Land Tax Assessment Act, 1907, of all land chargeable with the tax. .

30th June,

1967.