2016-10-11 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

                                                                 Delegation No: 2016-01




DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
TITLE:        LOCAL GOVERNMENT - RATES

Delegation by the Council to:                                   Date:

Chief Executive Officer

Source of Authority:
Local Government Act 2009
Local Government Regulation 2012

Delegated Power:

1. To exercise the powers of council pursuant to the Local Government Act 2009.

DESCRIPTION OF POWER DELEGATED                                                     LEGISLATION

Rates & Charges - Overdue
Power to register a charge over land for overdue rates and charges under Section 95
section 95 of the Local Government Act 2009.
Power to lodge documents with the Registrar of Titles for release of the charge if Section 95
overdue rates and charges are paid.
Power to sign a certificate as to a charge over land for overdue rates and Section 95(3)
charges.


2.   To exercise the powers of local government under the Local Government Regulation 2012
     including the:

DESCRIPTION OF POWER DELEGATED                                                   LEGISLATION

Rates & Charges
Power to identify, in any way considered appropriate, parcels of rateable land   Section 77(2)
to which a minimum amount of general rates apply.
Power to allow a longer period than prescribed for the owner of land to object   Section 88(4)(d)(ii)
to the categorisation of the owner’s land for rating purposes.
Power to allow a longer period within which an owner of rateable land must       Section 90(5)(b)
give an objection notice.
Power to determine a period considered appropriate for the issue of a rate       Section 107(1)
notice.
Power, where land becomes, or stops being, rateable land, to adjust the rates    Section 110
so that the rates are calculated only on the period when the land was rateable
land.


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