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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

143: Certain terms in other enactments must be treated as terms under this Act

You could also call this:

"Some words in other laws have special meanings when it comes to rates and rating."

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When you read other laws, you must understand certain words in a specific way. If a law talks about making rates, you should think of it as setting rates. If it mentions levying rates, you should think of it as assessing rates.

When you see the words rateable property, you should think of rateable land. If a law mentions separately rateable property, you should understand it as a rating unit or rating units. If a law talks about an occupier in relation to rates, you should think of it as a ratepayer.

You must follow these rules unless the law clearly says something else, and they are subject to sections 137 to 142 and Schedules 4 and 5.

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

143Certain terms in other enactments must be treated as terms under this Act

  1. A reference in an enactment—

  2. to making rates must be read as including a reference to setting rates:
    1. to levying rates must be read as including a reference to assessing rates:
      1. to rateable property must be read as a reference to rateable land:
        1. to separately rateable property must be read as a reference to a rating unit or rating units.

          1. A reference in an enactment to an occupier in the context of rates or rating must be read as a reference to a ratepayer.

          2. Subsection (1) applies unless the context of an enactment otherwise requires.

          3. Subsections (1) and (2) apply subject to sections 137 to 142 and Schedules 4 and 5.