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Payment of rates to the Urban

and Regional Councils.

CAP. 116]

Rating

[1987 Ed.

23. (1) Before the end of the first month of each quarter the Collector of Rates shall pay

(a) to the Urban Council such proportion of the net rates collected by him in respect of tenements in the Urban Council area during the previous quarter as the percentage of the rateable value prescribed under section 18 for Urban Council rates bears to the aggregate of that percentage and the percentage of the rateable value so prescribed for general rates in relation to the Urban Council area at the time of that collection;

(b) to the Regional Council such proportion of the net rates collected by him in respect of tenements in the Regional Council area during the previous quarter as the percentage of the rateable value prescribed under section 18 for Regional Council rates bears to the aggregate of that percentage and the percentage of the rateable value so prescribed for general rates in relation to the Regional Council area at the time of that collection; and

(c) to general revenue all net rates collected by him during the previous quarter and not paid to the Urban Council or the Regional Council under this subsection.

(2) In this section "net rates", in relation to any quarter in which they are collected, means-

(a) rates lawfully collected during that quarter less any refund of rates made during that quarter under section 30, 31, 35 or 44; and

(b) any sum in addition to rates collected during that quarter

under section 22(2) or (2A) or 29(3).

(Replaced, 1 of 1986, s. 5)

Deletions.

PART VI

DELETIONS AND INTERIM VALUATIONS

24. The Commissioner may at any time delete from a valua- tion list any tenement-

(a) if there has been any structural alteration thereto; (b) if the tenement comprises 2 or more tenements that---

(i) were previously valued together as a single tene- ment; and

(ii) in the opinion of the Commissioner should be valued as separate tenements; (Replaced, 33 of 1981, s. 16)

(c) if the tenement-

(i) was previously valued as a separate tenement; and (ii) in the opinion of the Commissioner should be valued together with another tenement as a single tene- ment in accordance with section 10; or (Replaced, 33 of 1981, s. 16)