Metropolitan Region Improvement Tax Act Amendment Act 1976 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

METROPOLITAN REGION

IMPROVEMENT TAX.

No. 9 of 1976.

AN ACT to amend the Metropolitan Region

Improvement Tax Act, 1959-1966.

[Assented to 27th May, 1976.]

BE 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:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan nnta,,,„.

Region Improvement Tax Act Amendment Act, 1976.

Reprinted as

(2) In this Act the Metropolitan Region

approved for

reprint 9th

Improvement Tax Act, 1959-1966 is referred to as	February,
the principal Act.	1973.

No. 9.] Metropolitan Region Improvement [1976.

Tax.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Region Improvement Tax Act, 1959-1976.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the 1st

July, 1976.

Section 4

Section 4 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 seventy-six".

amended. 3.

Section 5

added. 4. The principal Act is amended by adding a

section as follows-

Rate of tax

For the year of assessment commencing on the first day of July, 1976, and for each year of assessment thereafter, the rate of 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 Planning Scheme Act, 1959, and the Land Tax Assessment Act, 1976, of all land chargeable with the tax. .

imposed after 5.

1st July, 1976.