Rates and Land Tax (Amendment) Act (No 2) 1991 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Rates and Land Tax (Amendment) Act
(No. 2) 1991

No. 28 of 1991

An Act to amend the Rates and Land Tax Act 1926

[Notified in ACT Gazette S 55:  1 July 1991]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Rates and Land Tax (Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1991.

Commencement

2.  (1)  Section 1 and this section commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.

(2)  The remaining provisions commence on 1 July 1991.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Rates and Land Tax Act 1926.1

Imposition

4.  Section 13 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting from subsection (1) “1.312%” and substituting “1.149%”; and

(b)by omitting from subsection (2) “0.656%” and substituting “0.5745%”.

Payment of rates

5.  Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting from subparagraph (5) (b) (i) “and (6)”; and

(b)by omitting subsection (6).

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NOTE

1. 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;  No. 52, 1985;  Nos. 2 and 89, 1986;  No. 63, 1988;  Nos. 21 and 38, 1989; Act No. 10, 1989;  Nos. 3 and 24, 1990; No. 27, 1991.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 21 June 1991]

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