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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 - Rating sales and leases

68: Rating sale or lease

You could also call this:

"What happens if you don't pay your rates: sale or lease of a property"

Illustration for Local Government (Rating) Act 2002

When you get a notice about a rating unit, it means the Registrar has received a certificate and fee as required under section 67. The Registrar must then tell all people who have an interest in the rating unit about certain matters. You will be told that the rating unit has unpaid rates and will be sold or leased if payments are not made.

The notice will say that to stop the sale or lease, you must pay the High Court the amount of the unpaid rates and costs, plus interest, within six months. You must also pay all rates due on the unit up to the date of payment, and the Registrar's charges. If you do not make these payments, the rating unit will be sold or leased.

The Registrar sends this notice to make sure everyone with an interest in the rating unit knows what is happening and what they need to do to stop the sale or lease.

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Part 3Assessment, payment, and recovery of rates and remission, postponement, and write-off of rates
Assessment, payment, and recovery: Rating sales and leases

68Rating sale or lease

  1. As soon as possible after receiving the certificate and fee required under section 67, the Registrar must give notice of the matters prescribed by subsection (2) to all persons whom the Registrar believes have an interest in the rating unit.

  2. The notice required under subsection (1) must state that the rating unit—

  3. is subject to a judgment for unpaid rates; and
    1. will be sold or leased unless, within 6 months after the date of the notice, payments are made to the High Court of—
      1. the amount of the judgment and costs; and
        1. interest fixed by the local authority on the amount of the judgment and costs; and
          1. all rates due on the unit up to the date of payment; and
            1. the Registrar’s charges.