Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Valuation of Land Act 1960 - SECT 13DC

Valuations generally

13DC. Valuations generally



(1) In every valuation for the purposes of the Local Government Act 1989, each
separate occupancy on rateable land must be computed at its net annual value,
its capital improved value and, if required by a rating authority, its site
value.

(2) A council may use in respect of rateable land within its municipal
district valuations in force in respect of that land immediately before the
constitution of the council for such period as the latest of the valuations
might have been used by the council for which it was made.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), a council must cause a valuation of all
rateable land within its municipal district to be made as at 1 January in
every even calendar year and returned to the council before 30 June in that
year.

(4) The Minister, after consultation with the valuer-general, may direct in
any particular case or class of case that a general valuation be made as at,
and returned before, dates other than those specified in subsection (3).

(5) In a general valuation, regard must be had to every circumstance affecting
the land at the date the valuation is returned that, were it to occur or come
into existence subsequently, would be a circumstance in which, under section
13DF(2), a supplementary valuation could be made.

(6) If several parcels of land in the same municipal district are occupied by
the same person and separated from each other only by a road or railway or
other similar area across or around which movement is reasonably possible, the
parcels must be regarded as together forming rateable land and valued
accordingly.

(7) If any person is liable to be rated in respect of 2 or more unoccupied
parcels of land in the same municipal district and the parcels form one
continuous area, the parcels must be regarded as together forming rateable
land and valued accordingly.

(7A) If a portion of a parcel of land on which a building is erected is
occupied separately, or is obviously adapted to being occupied separately,
from other land in the parcel, that portion must be regarded as forming a
separate rateable property and must be valued accordingly.

(8) If any portion of a parcel or parcels of land forming rateable land for
the purposes of a municipal rate or of a rate to be levied by any other rating
authority using the valuation is subject-

   (a)  to a rate levied in respect of that portion only; or

   (b)  to a differential rate which differs from the rate levied in respect
        of the remainder of that parcel or those parcels-

the value of the land must be apportioned so as to show separately the value
of the portion.

(9) If land comprising one undertaking extends continuously beyond the
boundaries of any municipal district the value, for the purposes of any rate,
of so much of the land as is within any one municipal district, must be
assessed as part of the value of the whole of the land.