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Local Government (Rating) Act 2002

Assessment, payment, and recovery of rates and remission, postponement, and write-off of rates - Assessment, payment, and recovery - Provision for early payment of rates

55: Policy for early payment of rates in current financial year

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"Paying rates early: when you can pay some or all of your rates before they're due"

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A local authority can make a policy to let you pay some or all of your rates before they are due in the current financial year. You can pay some or all of your rates early if the local authority has a policy that says you can. The local authority might give you a discount if you pay your rates by a certain date that is before they are due.

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Part 3Assessment, payment, and recovery of rates and remission, postponement, and write-off of rates
Assessment, payment, and recovery: Provision for early payment of rates

55Policy for early payment of rates in current financial year

  1. A local authority may adopt a policy for the payment of some or all rates that are identified in the rates assessment before the due date or dates for those rates in the current financial year.

  2. A policy adopted under subsection (1)—

  3. must be adopted using the special consultative procedure; and
    1. may be included in the long-term plan.

      1. A policy adopted under this section may provide for the local authority to discount the amount of the rates if payment is made by a specified date before the due date or dates.

      Notes
      • Section 55(2)(b): amended, on , by section 50 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 124).
      • Section 55(2)(b): amended, on , by section 262 of the Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84).