Rates (Amendment) Act 1985 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Rates (Amendment) Ordinance 1985

No. 52 of 1985

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government 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 26 September 1985.

J. A. ROWLAND

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. SCHOLES

Minister of State for Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Rates Ordinance 1926

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Rates (Amendment) Ordinance 1985.¹

Imposition of rates

2.  Section 13 of the Rates Ordinance 1926² is amended—

(a)by inserting in paragraph (2) (b) “, other than a parcel of prescribed land,” after “in the City Area”;

(b)by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “outside the City Area” and substituting “, being land that is outside the City Area or that is prescribed land,”; and

(c)by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

“(4)  For the purposes of this section, ‘prescribed land’ means a parcel of rateable land that is held under a lease granted for rural purposes within the meaning of the Leases Ordinance 1918.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 1 October 1985.

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; No. 27, 1984.