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Queensland
Local Government (Approved
Pensioners Rate Subsidy)
Amendment Bill 2005
Queensland
Local Government (Approved Pensioners
Rate Subsidy) Amendment Bill 2005
Contents
Page
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Insertion of new s 1035AA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1035AA Extension of pensioner rate subsidy scheme to
holder of leasehold interest in retirement village . . . . 4
2005
A Bill
for
An Act to amend the Local Government Act 1993 to provide for
the extension of the pensioner rate subsidy scheme to
particular retirement village residents
s1 4 s3
Local Government (Approved Pensioners Rate
Subsidy) Amendment Bill 2005
The Parliament of Queensland enacts-- 1
Clause 1 Short title 2
This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Approved 3
Pensioners Rate Subsidy) Amendment Act 2005. 4
Clause 2 Act amended 5
This Act amends the Local Government Act 1993. 6
Clause 3 Insertion of new s 1035AA 7
Chapter 14, part 6, division 1-- 8
insert-- 9
`1035AAExtension of pensioner rate subsidy scheme to 10
holder of leasehold interest in retirement village 11
`(1) This section applies if-- 12
(a) a person (the relevant pensioner) is the holder of a 13
leasehold interest in an accommodation unit occupied 14
by the relevant pensioner in a retirement village; and 15
(b) under the retirement village scheme for the retirement 16
village, the relevant pensioner is required to contribute a 17
share (the relevant share) of a rate payable to a local 18
government for the retirement village land for the 19
retirement village; and 20
(c) the relevant share relates to the relevant pensioner's 21
leasehold interest in the accommodation unit; and 22
(d) if the relevant pensioner were the holder of a freehold 23
interest in the accommodation unit, the relevant 24
pensioner would be entitled to a rate remission from the 25
local government, for a rate payable by the relevant 26
pensioner for the accommodation unit, under the 27
operation of the following-- 28
s3 5 s3
Local Government (Approved Pensioners Rate
Subsidy) Amendment Bill 2005
(i) division 2;1 1
(ii) a pensioner rate subsidy scheme established by the 2
State and operated in conjunction with the local 3
government. 4
`(2) Section 10342 and the pensioner rate subsidy scheme must be 5
applied in relation to the relevant share to the greatest 6
practicable extent. 7
`(3) The local government and the retirement village scheme 8
operator must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the 9
relevant pensioner receives the appropriate remission of the 10
relevant share. 11
`(4) In this section, each of the following has the same meaning it 12
has under the Retirement Village Act 1999-- 13
(a) accommodation unit; 14
(b) leasehold interest; 15
(c) retirement village; 16
(d) retirement village land; 17
(e) retirement village scheme; 18
(f) retirement village scheme operator.'. 19
1 Chapter 14 (Rates and charges), part 6 (Concessions), division 2 (Concessions for
classes of land owners)
2 Section 1034 (Remission for occupancy by pensioners)
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