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METROPOLITAN REGION IMPROVEMENT TAX AMENDMENT BILL 2005

                      Western Australia


     Metropolitan Region Improvement Tax
            Amendment Bill 2005

                           CONTENTS

1.     Short title                          1
2.     Commencement                         2
3.     The Act amended                      2
4.     Section 8 amended                    2




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                      LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY



      Metropolitan Region Improvement Tax
             Amendment Bill 2005


                               A Bill for


An Act to amend the Metropolitan Region Improvement Tax Act 1959.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1.      Short title
        This is the Metropolitan Region Improvement Tax Amendment
        Act 2005.




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     2.          Commencement
                 This Act comes into operation on the day on which the Planning
                 and Development Act 2005 comes into operation.

     3.          The Act amended
 5               The amendments in this Act are to the Metropolitan Region
                 Improvement Tax Act 1959*.
                 [* Reprint 3 as at 9 May 2003.]

     4.          Section 8 amended
          (1)    Section 8 is amended by inserting after "subsequent year of
10               assessment" --
                 "
                       up to and including the year of assessment ending on
                       30 June immediately following the day on which the
                       Planning and Development Act 2005 comes into
15                     operation
                                                                                 ".
          (2)    After section 8 the following section is inserted --
     "
            9.         Rate of tax imposed after 30 June following
20                     commencement of Planning and Development
                       Act 2005
                       For the year of assessment commencing on
                       1 July immediately following the day on which the
                       Planning and Development Act 2005 comes into
25                     operation, and for each subsequent year of assessment,
                       the rate of Metropolitan Region Improvement Tax
                       imposed by this Act and payable under the Planning
                       and Development Act 2005, is 0.15 cent for every
                       dollar of the unimproved value of the land according to
30                     the valuation in force under the Valuation of Land


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Act 1978 at midnight on 30 June in the previous
financial year.
                                                      ".




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