Rates (Amendment) Act 1984 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Rates (Amendment) Ordinance 1984

No. 27 of 1984

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 27 June 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

TOM UREN

Minister of State for Territories and Local Government

An Ordinance to amend the Rates Ordinance 1926

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Rates (Amendment) Ordinance 1984.¹

Commencement

2.  This Ordinance shall come into operation on 1 July 1984.

Payment of rates

3.  Section 15 of the Rates Ordinance 1926² is amended—

(a)by omitting sub-section (3), (3A), (4) and (4A) and substituting the following sub-sections:

“(3)  The due date for the payment of rates for a year in respect of a parcel of rateable land is the date specified in the notice given under section 14 to the owner of that parcel of land as the due date for the payment of those rates, being a date not earlier than 28 days after the date of the notice.

“(4)  Subject to sub-section (4A), rates are payable in accordance with sub-section (5).

“(4A)  Where the date of the notice in respect of rates for a year given under section 14 to the owner of a parcel of rateable land is a date later than 28 days before the last instalment day in that year, those rates are payable on the due date for the payment of those rates.”; and

(b)by omitting from sub-section (5) “to whom this sub-section applies.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1984.

2. No. 6, 1926 as amended by Nos. 5, 12 and 17, 1929; No. 5, 1930; No. 5, 1931; No. 4, 1933; Nos. 1 and 27, 1937; Nos. 25 and 35, 1938; No. 5, 1950; No. 21, 1959; No. 5, 1967; No. 47, 1970; No. 38, 1971; No. 29, 1974; No. 12, 1975; No. 69, 1976; Nos. 1, 21 and 44, 1977; No. 29, 1979; No. 35, 1981; Nos. 9 and 12, 1983.