New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VALUATION OF LAND ACT 1916 - SECT 4

4 Definitions

(1) In this Act, unless inconsistent with the context or subject-matter:
"Area" means the territory within which a rating or taxing authority levies rates or taxes.
"Compulsorily acquired" means compulsorily acquired in accordance with the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 or the Roads Act 1993 .
"contract" includes an arrangement.
"contract valuer" means a person or body with whom the Valuer-General has a valuation service contract.
"Council" has the same meaning as it has in the Local Government Act 1993 .
"Department" means the Land and Property Management Authority.
"Deposited plan" means a plan (not being a plan under the Strata Schemes (Freehold Development) Act 1973 or the Strata Schemes (Leasehold Development) Act 1986 ) registered after being lodged at the office of the Registrar-General in accordance with Division 3 of Part 23 of the Conveyancing Act 1919 .
"Director-General" means that Chief Executive of the Department.
"District" means valuation district for the purposes of this Act.
"exercise" a function includes perform a duty.
"function" includes a duty.
"general valuation" means a valuation referred to in section 14A (1).
"Land improvements" means:

(a) the clearing of land by the removal or thinning out of timber, scrub or other vegetable growths,

(b) the picking up and removal of stone,

(c) the improvement of soil fertility or the structure of soil,

(d) the restoration or improvement of land surface by excavation, filling, grading or levelling, not being works of irrigation or conservation,

(d1) without limiting paragraph (d), any excavation, filling, grading or levelling of land (otherwise than for the purpose of irrigation or conservation) that is associated with:

(i) the erection of any building or structure, or

(ii) the carrying out of any work, or

(iii) the operations of any mine or extractive industry,

(e) the reclamation of land by draining or filling together with any retaining walls or other works appurtenant to the reclamation, and

(f) underground drains.

"Lease" includes agreement to lease, licence, or any other document for the tenancy or occupancy of land.
"Lessee" includes sub-lessee.
"List" includes supplementary list.
"Local government area" has the same meaning as "area" has in the Local Government Act 1993 .
"Owner" means the person who, whether jointly or severally, is seised or possessed of or entitled to any estate or interest in land.
"Planning instrument" means an environmental planning instrument within the meaning of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (including a deemed environmental planning instrument within the meaning of that Act).
"rating or taxing authority" means a rating or taxing authority referred to in section 47 (1).
"Register of Land Values" means the Register of Land Values referred to in section 14CC.
"Rent", in respect of a lease, includes premium, fine, royalty, and any other consideration for the tenancy or occupancy of land.
"Stratum" means a part of land consisting of a space or layer below, on, or above the surface of the land, or partly below and partly above the surface of the land, defined or definable by reference to improvements or otherwise, whether some of the dimensions of the space or layer are unlimited or whether all the dimensions are limited; but refers only to a stratum ratable or taxable under any Act, and "strata" is the plural of stratum.
"Supplementary valuation" means a valuation included in a supplementary list supplied pursuant to section 49 but does not include:

(a) a valuation made under the provisions of section 19B or a valuation referred to in section 20 (3) (b),

(b) an altered valuation made as the result of an objection, appeal, correction of a clerical error or misdescription, where the valuation which was altered was included in a general valuation.

"Taxes" includes duties.
"valuation recommendation" means a recommendation of the kind referred to in section 13H.
"valuation service" means a service involving the provision of valuation recommendations to the Valuer-General.
"valuation service contract" means a valuation service contract referred to in Part 1A.
"valuing year" means the year commencing 1 July.
"water right" means a right or authority (however described) under the Water Management Act 2000 , the Water Act 1912 or any other Act, being a right or authority to construct, install or use works of irrigation, or to use water supplied by works of irrigation.
"Western Division" has the same meaning as it has in the Crown Lands Act 1989 .

(1A) In this Act, a reference to land includes a reference to a stratum and a reference to a parcel of land includes a reference to a parcel that comprises a stratum.

(2) Notes in the text of this Act are explanatory notes and do not form part of this Act.

(3) Nothing in this Act relating to strata shall affect the provisions of the Strata Schemes (Freehold Development) Act 1973 or the Strata Schemes (Leasehold Development) Act 1986 .

Note: Refer to Part 4 of the Strata Schemes (Freehold Development) Act 1973 and Part 4 of the Strata Schemes (Leasehold Development) Act 1986 for provisions relating to the valuation of parcels under those Acts.