Pensioners (Rates Exemption) Act 1922 (WA)

PENSIONERS (RATES EXEMPTION).

13° GEO. V., No. XLI.

No. 18 of 1923.

AN ACT to exempt Pensioners under the Invalid and Old-Age Pensions Act from liability for the payment of Rates under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1906, and the Road Districts Act, 1919, and of Water and Sewerage Rates.

[Assented to 22nd February, 1923.]

i3E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Pensioners (Rates Ex-

emption) Act, 1922.

Exemption from 2.

A pensioner under the Invalid and Old Age Pensions Act, 1908, may claim to be exempt from liability for the pay- ment of rates under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1906, and the Roads Districts Act, 1919, the water, stormwater, and

rates.

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sewerage rates, meter rent, sanitary and pan rates in respect of land of winch he is in occupation as owner. The payment of such rates shall be deferred, and the same shall be payable only on the sale of the property or the death of the pensioner, but in the meantime they shall become a first charge on the property, subject to any rights of a mortgagee existing at the time of the passing of this Act.