1Short title
This Act may be cited as the Northern Territory Rates Act 1971.
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This Act may be cited as the Northern Territory Rates Act 1971.
This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the
Administrator by notice in the Gazette.
In this Act:
Aboriginal community living area, see section 7 of the Local Government Act 2019.
Aboriginal community living area association, see section
7 of the Local Government Act 2019.
allotment, see section 12(2).
assessed value, of an allotment, see section 14(2).
interest, in rateable land, includes a right to be granted a lease from the
Crown of rateable land.
Land Trust means an Aboriginal Land Trust established under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth).
mining tenement, see section 7 of the Local Government Act 2019.
occupier, of an allotment, means a person who, either jointly or alone, has actual physical possession of the allotment to the substantial exclusion of other persons.
prescribed area means an area of land that is not in a local government area and is prescribed by regulation as a prescribed area for this Act.
rate book means the rate book maintained under section 6.
rate notice, see section 15.
rateable land, see section 24.
ratepayer, for an allotment, means the person who must pay the rate for the allotment under Part III, Division 1A.
valuation-based charge, see section 13(2)(b).
Part IIAA of the Criminal Code applies to an offence against this
Act.
Note for section 4A
Part IIAA of the Criminal
Code states the general principles of criminal responsibility, establishes general defences, and deals with burden of proof. It also defines, or elaborates on, certain concepts commonly used in the creation of offences.
The ratepayer for an allotment in a prescribed area must pay the rate levied in respect of the allotment in accordance with this Act.
The Minister must maintain a rate book.
The rate book must contain the following:
a description of each allotment within each prescribed area;
the name of the ratepayer for each allotment;
the assessed value of each allotment, if relevant;
(d) any other information as the Minister sees fit or as prescribed by regulation.
The Minister must:
(a) enter a person's name in the rate book as the ratepayer for an allotment if:
(i) the person is a person claiming to be the ratepayer for the allotment and requests the Minister to do so; or
(ii) the Minister is satisfied that the person is the ratepayer for the allotment; or
(b) remove a person's name from the rate book as the ratepayer for an allotment if:
the person requests the Minister to do so; and
(ii) the person has paid all rates for which the person is liable as the ratepayer for the allotment; and
(iii) the Minister has received notice of the name and address of the new ratepayer.
The Minister shall, immediately he becomes aware of an error in, or omission from, the rate book, direct that such alterations be made in the rate book as he decides the circumstances require.
The Minister must serve notice of an alteration under section 8 on the ratepayer whose name appears in the rate book as the ratepayer for the relevant allotment.
The Minister must, within 21 days after declaring a rate:
(a) enter in the rate book the amount of the rate due in respect of each allotment and the name of the ratepayer for the allotment; and
(b) give public notice of the place at which, and the times when, the rate book may be inspected.
(2) The Minister must ensure that the rate book is available for inspection at the place and during the times specified in the notice under subsection (1).
A person who wishes to inspect the entries in the rate book relating to an allotment must pay the fee for inspecting the rate book that the Minister determines, unless the person is:
the ratepayer for the allotment or an adjoining allotment; or
(b) the agent of the ratepayer for the allotment or adjoining allotment who is authorised in writing by the ratepayer to do so.
(1) The Minister may divide a parcel of land that is rateable land into more than one allotment if:
(a) different parts of the parcel are occupied by different persons; or
the allotments fall within different zones; or
(c) there is some other good reason for disaggregating the parcel into separate allotments.
An allotment is:
(a) if the Minister has divided a parcel of land that is rateable land into more than one allotment under subsection (1) – each part of the parcel as divided by the Minister; or
otherwise – a parcel of land that is rateable land.
An allotment may be:
(a) a unit or lot created by registration of a plan under the Real Property (Unit Titles) Act 1975 or the Unit Titles Act 1975; or
(b) a unit created by the registration of a unit title scheme under the Unit Title Schemes Act 2009.
In this section:
zone means a zone constituted under the Planning Act 1999.
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