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Local Government (Rating) Act 2002

Rating information database and rates records - Rates records

39: Objection to rates records

You could also call this:

"Objecting to mistakes in your council rates bill"

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You can object to the information in the rates records if you are a ratepayer or if you have to pay rates under section 61 or section 62. You can object if you think the rates are incorrectly calculated or if the rates balance shown for your property is incorrect.

You need to lodge your objection with the local authority.

The local authority will write to you to tell you their decision on your objection and if they agree with you, they will correct the rates record.

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Rates records

39Objection to rates records

  1. A ratepayer, or a person who has become liable to pay rates under section 61 or section 62, may object to the information contained in the rates records on either or both of the following grounds:

  2. that the rates are incorrectly calculated:
    1. that the rates balance shown in respect of the rating unit or separate rating area is incorrect.

      1. Objections must be lodged with the local authority.

      2. A local authority must notify the ratepayer in writing of its decision on an objection and, if the objection is upheld, correct the entry in the rates record accordingly.

      Notes
      • Section 39(1)(b): amended, on , by section 21 of the Local Government (Rating of Whenua Māori) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 12).