Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LAND DRAINAGE ACT 1925 - SECT 72

72 .         Meaning of “rateable property” or “rateable land”

                All land shall be rateable property within the meaning of this Act save as hereinafter excepted, that is to say — 

        (1)         Land, from time to time, declared by the Minister exempt from rating on the ground that it by its situation, configuration, or other physical causes is excluded from deriving any direct or indirect benefit from any works existing or proposed to be constructed in the district.

        (2)         Land the property of the Crown and used for public purposes, or unoccupied:

                Provided that any land exempted by this paragraph shall be deemed rateable property while leased, used, or occupied for any private purpose.

        (3)         Land belonging to any religious body, and used or held exclusively as or for a place of public worship, a Sunday school, a place of residence of a minister of religion, a convent, nunnery, monastery, or occupied exclusively by a religious brotherhood or sisterhood.

        (4)         Land used exclusively as a public hospital, benevolent asylum, orphanage, public school, private school being the property of a religious body, public library, public museum, public art gallery, or mechanics’ institute, or lands held in trust under the University Endowment Act 1904  ⁶ , or any amendment or re-enactment thereof.

        (5)         Land used and occupied exclusively for charitable purposes.

        (6)         Land vested in any board under the Parks and Reserves Act 1895 , or in trustees for agricultural or horticultural show purposes, or zoological or acclimatisation gardens or purposes, or for public resort and recreation.

        (7)         Land held or used as a cemetery.

                Provided that — 

            (a)         any land exempted by paragraphs (3), (4) or (5) shall be deemed rateable property while the same is leased or occupied for any private purpose; and

            (b)         any land used or occupied for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (4) and (5) shall be deemed to be rateable property if such property is held under lease or rented from any owner except the Crown.

                Provided, further, that no exempted land shall become liable to be rated by reason of such land being used for the purposes of any bazaar, or as a place of meeting for any religious, charitable, temperance, or benevolent object, or for a polling place at any parliamentary or other election.

        [Section 72 amended by No. 76 of 1978 s. 54; No. 110 of 1985 s. 98.]