Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LIBRARY BOARD OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA ACT 1951 - SECT 19

19 .         Rating powers of local government

        (1)         A local government may exercise the provisions relating to rates of the Act under which it is constituted to make and levy, in addition to any other rate which it is thereby authorised to levy, a rate to be called the registered public library services rate, on all rateable land in the district of which it is constituted the local government.

        (2)         The registered public library services rate made on rateable land in a district in any financial year shall not exceed —

            (a)         in the case of land rated on unimproved capital value, the sum of ⁵ / ₄₈ of a cent in the dollar;

            (b)         in the case of rateable land rated on annual rental value, a sum not exceeding ⁵ / ₆ of a cent in the dollar.

        (3)         Rates levied in pursuance of the provisions of this section shall be used by the local government for the purposes of the provisions of this Act and may, on such terms and conditions as the local government thinks fit, be appropriated for payment as contributions to any other local government for registered public library services rendered by the other local government to the ratepayers or citizens of the first-mentioned local government.

        [Section 19 amended by No. 20 of 1955 s. 12; No. 113 of 1965 s. 4; No. 29 of 1974 s. 6; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]