Valuation of Land Amendment Act 1993 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

VALUATION OF LAND

ACT 1993

No. 28 of 1993

AN ACT to amend the Valuation of Land Act 1978.

[Assented to 15 December 1993 .]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows :

Short title

1.    This Act may be cited as the Valuation of Land Amendment

Act 1993.

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Commencement

2.    The provisions of this Act come into operation on such day as

is, or days as are respectively, fixed by proclamation .

Principal Act

3. In this Act the Valuation of Land Act 1978* is referred to as

the principal Act .

[* Reprinted as at 2 February 1983.

For subsequent amendments see 1992 Index to

Legislation of Western Australia, Table 1, p . 222.1

Section 38 repealed and a section substituted

4.    Section 38 of the principal Act is repealed and the following

section is substituted -

Valuer-General to charge for valuation rolls and other prescribed goods and services

38. The Valuer-General shall raise against each rating or taxing authority in respect of the supply of valuation rolls and any other goods and services he is authorized to supply under this Act such charges as are from time to time prescribed .

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Section 39 amended

5.    Section 39 of the principal Act is amended by repealing

subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection -

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(1) The Valuer-General may make valuations of

land for -

(a) any department, agency or instrumentality of the Crown in right of the

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Commonwealth, in right of the State or in right of any other State; and

(b) any person, body or authority performing any public function which, under any written law -

(i) has among his, her or its functions the power to acquire or dispose of land; or

(ii) has the power to impose a rate or tax on land.

Section 49 amended

6.    Section 49 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (2)

(b) by deleting "person but so that the charges imposed do not exceed the cost of supplying the goods or services ." and substituting the following -

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person .