Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) This section
applies to the financial year commencing on 1 July 2006 and to each
financial year thereafter.
(2) Subject to and in
accordance with the provisions of this Act, in respect of each financial year
to which this section applies there shall be assessed, collected and paid on
and in relation to all land held under pastoral lease rates at such rate as
may be imposed under subsection (3) in respect of such land.
(3) The Protection
Board, with the approval of the Minister, may, by notice published in the
Gazette on or before the 30 June immediately preceding a financial year
to which this section applies, impose in respect of that financial year rates
in respect of land held under pastoral lease.
(4) A rate imposed
under subsection (3) —
(a) must
be imposed upon the unimproved value of land to which the rate applies; and
(b) must
not be at a rate exceeding 10 cents in the dollar of the unimproved value of
land.
(5) All rates imposed
under subsection (3) in respect of land that is in the same zone must be
at the same rate.
(6) All rates imposed
under subsection (3) in respect of land that is not in a zone must be at
the same rate.
(7) Despite the
amendments made by the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Amendment
Act 2006 , this Act, as in force immediately before the day on which that
Act comes into operation, continues to apply in relation to a rate payable for
a financial year commencing before 1 July 2006.
[Section 60 amended by No. 40 of 1978
s. 10; No. 22 of 1980 s. 3; No. 31 of 1983 s. 7; No.
6 of 2006 s. 5.]