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New Zealand: Acts affecting Native Lands, 1886, 1888-91 and 1894-95

Of Rates and the Rate-Book

Of Rates and the Rate-Book.

37.Conditions on which local authorities may make rates. Every rate made by a local authority shall be made subject to the following conditions:—
(1.)That the rate be for a year, or some period less than a year, without prejudice to the provisions of subsection four hereof:
(2.)That it be payable in one sum, or in equal instalments, on a day or days to be fixed at the time of making the rate;
And, in the case of a special rate made for providing for the annual charge on a loan, that it be payable half-yearly in each year:
(3.)That it be of a stated amount in the pound upon the rate- I able values of the rateable property as appearing in the valuation-roll for the time being in force;
Except as otherwise provided in the case of a water-rate or other rate fixed by any Act or Ordinance:
(4.)Where the local authority is authorised to make a special rate providing for the annual charges on a loan, such special rate shall be made a continuing rate for a period of years equal to the currency of the loan.
38.Particulars to be entered in rate-book. The particulars of every rate shall be transcribed in a ratebook, which shall be in the form or to the effect set forth in the SixthSixth Schedule. Schedule hereto, and columns may be added to such form so as to allow of more than one rate being dealt with in the same ratebook, or to show what rates are at any time in arrear, if the local authority so desires it.
The names and other particulars as to occupiers or owners, and property, and the rateable values, and otherwise, as the nature of the rate may require, shall be taken from the valuation-roll.
All alterations lawfully made in the valuation-roll shall be transcribed into the rate-book, and initialled by the Chairman or Mayor and by the Clerk of the local authority.
39.Local authority to give fourteen days' notice of making rate. Not less than fourteen days before making any rate the local authority shall publicly notify their intention to make such rate, the period for which it is made, the days on which it is to become payable, and that the rate-book is open for inspection as herein provided.page 13
40.The rate-book snall be signed by two members of the localRate-book to be signed by two members, and to be open for inspection by ratepayers. authority, and shall be kept in some place, to be publicly notified, for inspection without fee by all ratepayers, at such times and hours as the local authority shall fix.
41.Any ratepayer may appeal to the local authority against theAppeal against rate-book. rate-book on any of the following grounds:—
(1.)That any person is rated in the rate-book on property not appearing in the valuation-roll for the time being in force, or for a different value than that stated in such roll:
(2.)That any person or property appearing by the valuation-roll to be liable to be rated is omitted in the rate-book:
(3.)That the description of any person or property is erroneously copied from the valuation-roll:
(4.)That the rate on any rateable property is incorrectly computed:
(5.)That any alteration lawfully made in the valuation-roll has not been made in the rate-book.
42.The local authority may correct any such errors in the ratebookLocal authority to correct errors in rate book., and every such correction shall be initialled by two members thereof; but, except as above provided, no appeal shall be allowed against any part of the rate.
43.The rate-book so signed, with corrections, if any, so initialledRate-book to be evidence without proof of signatures., shall be conclusive evidence in all Courts of the correctness of the contents thereof without proof of such signatures, and that the same has been made according to the provisions of this Act.
44.Any ratepayer who may feel aggrieved by the making of anyAppeal against separate rate. proposed separate rate may, within two months of the making of such rate, appeal to the Assessment Court against such rate, on the ground that his property will not be benefited or only partially benefited by the proposed work, or that the property of any ratepayer is wholly or partially omitted from the operation of such separate rate; and the Assessment Court shall decide thereon in the manner provided for appeals against general rates.