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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 6.45

6.45 .         Options for payment of rates or service charges

        (1)         A rate or service charge is ordinarily payable to a local government by a single payment but the person liable for the payment of a rate or service charge may elect to make that payment to a local government, subject to subsection (3), by —

            (a)         4 equal or nearly equal instalments; or

            (b)         such other method of payment by instalments as is set forth in the local government’s annual budget.

        (2)         Where, during a financial year, a rate notice is given after a reassessment of rates under section 6.40 the person to whom the notice is given may pay the rate or service charge —

            (a)         by a single payment; or

            (b)         by such instalments as are remaining under subsection (1)(a) or (b) for the remainder of that financial year.

        (3)         A local government may impose an additional charge (including an amount by way of interest) where payment of a rate or service charge is made by instalments and that additional charge is, for the purpose of its recovery, taken to be a rate or service charge, as the case requires, that is due and payable.

        (4)         Regulations may —

            (a)         provide for the manner of making an election to pay by instalments under subsection (1) or (2); and

            (b)         prescribe circumstances in which payments may or may not be made by instalments; and

            (c)         prohibit or regulate any matters relating to payments by instalments; and

            (d)         provide for the time when, and manner in which, instalments are to be paid; and

            (e)         prescribe the maximum amount (including the maximum interest component) which may be imposed under subsection (3) by way of an additional charge; and

            (f)         provide for any other matter relating to the payment of rates or service charges.

        [Section 6.45 modified: SL 2020/57 1M .]



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