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Local Government (Rating) Act 2002

Replacement of rates and miscellaneous matters - Miscellaneous matters - Amendments, savings, repeals of other enactments, and transitional provisions

140: Transitional provisions for rates postponement

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"Rules for delaying rate payments when laws changed"

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If you are dealing with rates postponement, a local authority can postpone rates as if the Rating Powers Act 1988 was still in force. This applies after the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 starts. You need to remember this rule applies until 30 June 2004. You should know that some rates are treated as postponed rates under this Act. These include rates that were postponed under the Rating Powers Act 1988 but are not payable yet, and rates that are postponed by the local authority after this Act starts.

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Part 5Replacement of rates and miscellaneous matters
Miscellaneous matters: Amendments, savings, repeals of other enactments, and transitional provisions

140Transitional provisions for rates postponement

  1. A local authority may postpone rates after the commencement of this Act as if the Rating Powers Act 1988 were in force.

  2. Subsection (1) applies until the close of 30 June 2004.

  3. The following rates must be treated as if they were postponed rates under this Act:

  4. rates that are postponed under the Rating Powers Act 1988, but are not payable before the commencement of this section:
    1. rates that are postponed under subsection (1).