Rural Lands Protection (General) Amendment (Rates) Regulation 2005 (NSW)

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New South Wales

Rural Lands Protection (General)

Amendment (Rates) Regulation 2005

under the

Rural Lands Protection Act 1998

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998.

IAN MICHAEL MACDONALD, M.L.C.,

Minister for Primary Industries

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Rural Lands Protection (General) Regulation
2001:

(a)	to make it clear that a special purpose rate is, generally, to be made by setting an amount payable for each stock unit based on the total notional carrying capacity of rateable land in the district, and
(b)	to enable base amounts determined by the State Council of Rural Lands Protection Boards in respect of boards specified by the State Council to be included in special purpose rates relating to the costs of eradicating pest insects, and
(c)	to reduce the minimum area of rateable land in the district of Goulburn from 20 hectares to 10 hectares, and
(d)	to vary the minimum general and animal health rates for certain districts.

This Regulation is made under the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998, including sections 60,

62 and 243 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 14 of 21 January 2005, page 191	Page 1
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Rural Lands Protection (General) Amendment (Rates)

Regulation 2005

under the

Rural Lands Protection Act 1998

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Rural Lands Protection (General) Amendment
(Rates) Regulation 2005.

2 Amendment of Rural Lands Protection (General) Regulation 2001

The Rural Lands Protection (General) Regulation 2001 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 2)

[1]      Clause 7 How are rates to be made?

Insert after clause 7 (4):

(4A) The board is to make a special purpose rate (if any) for rateable land by setting an amount payable for each stock unit based on the total notional carrying capacity of rateable land in the district.

[2]      Clause 9 Special purpose pest insect eradication rates

Insert at the end of clause 9:

(2)

Despite clause 7 (4A), a board is to make a special purpose rate
for the purposes specified in subclause (1):

(a)	in the case of a board specified by the State Council for the purposes of this clause, in accordance with subclause (3), or
(b)	in any other case, in accordance with clause 7 (4A).

(3)

A board referred to in subclause (2) (a) must calculate the special
purpose rate in accordance with the following formula:

R X (A C) = + ×

R represents the special purpose rate payable.
X represents the base amount determined by the State Council in
respect of the board for the purposes of the rate.
A represents an amount, determined by the board, payable for
each stock unit based on the total notional carrying capacity of
rateable land in the district.

where: determined in accordance with clause 11.

[3]      Schedule 4 Minimum areas of rateable land

Omit the matter relating to the district of Goulburn from columns 1 and 2 of the Schedule.

Insert instead:

Goulburn 10

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Schedule 1 Amendments

[4]      Schedule 5

Omit the Schedule. Insert instead:

Schedule 5 Minimum general and animal health
rates

(Clause 8)

Column 1 Column 2

Board	Minimum general rate	Minimum animal
($)	health rate ($)
Armidale	31.64	20.35
Balranald	10.80	5.90
Bombala	38.18	22.72
Bourke	0.00	0.00
Braidwood	48.75	43.75
Brewarrina	27.73	11.07
Broken Hill	20.00	2.20
Casino	33.00	26.00
Central Tablelands	43.33	27.48
Cobar	0.00	0.00
Condobolin	23.66	17.72
Cooma	59.91	25.71
Coonabarabran	32.20	21.47
Coonamble	21.65	7.60
Dubbo	31.65	13.16
Forbes	38.00	35.00
Gloucester	31.60	19.37
Goulburn	48.33	31.30
Grafton	36.50	24.50
Gundagai	30.80	20.70
Hay	12.40	12.40
Hillston	32.45	10.80

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Amendments Schedule 1

Column 1 Column 2

Board	Minimum general rate	Minimum animal
($)	health rate ($)
Hume	39.52	28.23
Hunter	39.67	22.39
Kempsey	43.35	31.59
Maitland	36.90	15.99
Milparinka	0.00	0.00
Molong	33.05	19.19
Moree	37.85	16.20
Moss Vale	48.02	29.74
Mudgee–Merriwa	42.00	21.00
Murray	10.80	4.35
Narrabri	39.54	28.24
Narrandera	30.75	12.30
Northern New England	35.62	21.58
Northern Slopes	45.66	26.34
Nyngan	28.52	21.75
Riverina	26.65	15.99
South Coast	65.54	29.15
Tamworth	35.26	9.83
Tweed–Lismore	35.00	26.40
Wagga Wagga	32.24	36.18
Walgett	18.40	8.65
Wanaaring	0.00	0.00
Wentworth	11.15	4.28
Wilcannia	31.80	21.00
Yass	39.50	39.50
Young	29.57	29.57

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