"Department" means the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.
"Deposited plan" means a plan (not being a plan under the
Strata Schemes Development Act 2015 ) registered after being lodged at the
office of the Registrar-General in accordance with Division 3 of Part 23 of
the Conveyancing Act 1919.
"District" means valuation district for the purposes of this Act.
"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.
"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.
"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" means that part of the State that is the Western Division
within the meaning of the Crown Land Management Act 2016 .
(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.
