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This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Rates and Charges Remissions) Amendment Act 2001 .
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This Act fixes the legal status of certain rate remissions under the Local Government (Rates and Charges Remissions) Act 1991. It validates remissions made before 1 July 2001 to specific veterans and war widows/widowers, and it confirms that eligible pensioners who did not receive a remission before that date cannot later claim one. It affects local councils (as grantors), those specific Commonwealth-entitled beneficiaries, and other eligible pensioners by creating finality for past council decisions and limiting retrospective claims (ss6–7).
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Direct links to the current provisions in Local Government (Rates and Charges Remissions) Amendment Act 2001.
This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Rates and Charges Remissions) Amendment Act 2001 .
This Act commences on 1 July 2001 or, if it has not received Royal Assent by that date, it is taken to have commenced on 1 July 2001.
In this Act, the Local Government (Rates and Charges Remissions) Act 1991 is referred to as the Principal Act.
Any remission of rates or charges made before 1 July 2001 under section 4 of the Principal Act was validly made if made to the following persons:
(a) a person who is a totally and permanently incapacitated person to whom section 24 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth applies;
(b) a person who is a war widow or war widower receiving a pension under Part II or IV of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth at a rate determined in accordance with subsection 30(1) of that Act.
A person who before 1 July 2001 is or was an eligible pensioner under the Principal Act, as in force before that date, but has not received any remission of rates or charges under section 4 of the Principal Act is not entitled to any remission of those rates or charges.
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This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Rates and Charges Remissions) Amendment Act 2001 .
This Act commences on 1 July 2001 or, if it has not received Royal Assent by that date, it is taken to have commenced on 1 July 2001.
In this Act, the Local Government (Rates and Charges Remissions) Act 1991 is referred to as the Principal Act.
Local Government (Rates and Charges Remissions) Act 1991
Local Government (Rates and Charges Remissions) Act 1991
Any remission of rates or charges made before 1 July 2001 under section 4 of the Principal Act was validly made if made to the following persons:
(a) a person who is a totally and permanently incapacitated person to whom section 24 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth applies;
(b) a person who is a war widow or war widower receiving a pension under Part II or IV of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth at a rate determined in accordance with subsection 30(1) of that Act.
A person who before 1 July 2001 is or was an eligible pensioner under the Principal Act, as in force before that date, but has not received any remission of rates or charges under section 4 of the Principal Act is not entitled to any remission of those rates or charges.