New South Wales Consolidated Acts

IRRIGATION AREAS (REDUCTION OF RENTS) ACT 1974 - SECT 7

7 Applications

(1) An application for the reduction of the rent payable in respect of a lease shall, for the purposes of this act, be deemed not to be made in accordance with this Act unless:

(a) it is made to the appropriate authority in the manner and form prescribed by regulation or, if no such regulation is in force, in the manner and form determined by the appropriate authority, and

(b) it is made:

(i) during the period of four months commencing one month before the rent became or becomes due and payable, whether or not the appropriate authority approves any other time under subsection (2) as the time when the application may be made, or

(ii) at such time, applicable to the application, as the appropriate authority approves under subsection (2).

(2) The appropriate authority may, in its discretion, approve, whether generally or in a particular case or class of cases, some time outside the period referred to in subsection (1) (b) (i) as the time when an application may be made.