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Rating Valuations Act 1998

Public Act	1998 No 69
Date of assent	23 June 1998

Note

This Act is administered in Land Information New Zealand

Contents

1 Short Title and commencement

2 Interpretation

Part 1
Functions and powers of Valuer-General

3 Valuer-General

4 Functions and powers of Valuer-General

5 Valuer-General may make rules setting requirements in relation to valuations and district valuation rolls

5A Meaning of certificate of title

5B What constitutes rating unit if there is certificate of title

5C What constitutes rating unit if there is no certificate of title

Part 2
District valuation rolls

6 District valuation rolls to be used as basis for rating [Repealed]

7 Territorial authorities to prepare and maintain district valuation rolls

8 Persons who may provide valuations

General revaluations

9 General revaluation of rolls at 3-yearly intervals

10 Territorial authority to supply details of general revaluation to Valuer-General

11 Valuer-General's approval required before general revaluation may be implemented

12 General revaluation to be publicly notified upon completion

13 Notice of general revaluation to owners and occupiers

Alterations to rolls

14 Alterations during currency of rolls

15 Alteration may be backdated in case of certain omissions

16 New valuation on request

17 Notice of alterations, etc, to owner and ratepayer

Equalisation Certificates and Special Rating Areas

18 Equalisation certificates and special rating areas under Rating Powers Act 1988 [Repealed]

19 Valuer-General's approval required before rating may proceed on basis of equalisation certificate or special rating area [Repealed]

Part 3
Special provisions relating to determination of rateable values

20 Value of trees and minerals

21 Value of land subject to lease

22 Rates-postponement values of farmland [Repealed]

23 Special rateable values of industrial or commercial land in residential or rural areas [Repealed]

24 Special rateable values of residential land in commercial or industrial areas [Repealed]

25 Special rateable values of single or double-unit dwellings where values influenced by demand for multi-unit housing [Repealed]

26 Special rateable values of existing use properties [Repealed]

27 Special rateable values of land subject to special preservation conditions [Repealed]

28 Rates-postponement or special rateable value need not be determined unless likely to be lower than normal rateable value [Repealed]

29 When rates-postponement and special rateable values to be entered in valuation roll [Repealed]

30 Land ceasing to be used for purpose for which rates-postponement or special rateable value determined [Repealed]

31 Notice to owners and occupiers in relation to rates-postponement or special rateable value [Repealed]

Part 4
Objections

32 Objection by owner or ratepayer

33 Objection by other persons

34 Objection to be initially reviewed by valuer

35 Notification of result of review

36 Persons affected may require objection to be heard by Land Valuation Tribunal

37 Valuer-General may object to any valuation, or join proceedings

38 Proceedings of Land Valuation Tribunal

39 Territorial authority to give effect to decisions of Tribunal

40 Valuation may be acted on while appeal pending

Part 5
Miscellaneous provisions

41 Copies of entries in rolls available to public

42 Territorial authorities to maintain and supply information to Valuer-General

43 Regional councils to share costs of maintaining district valuation rolls

44 Territorial authorities may be required to supply valuation services for equalisation certificates and special rating areas [Repealed]

45 Powers of entry

46 Provisions relating to notices

47 Delegation of Valuer-General's functions and powers

48 Appearance in legal proceedings of Valuer-General

49 Expenses of administration of Valuer-General

50 Delegation of functions and powers of territorial authority

51 Sale of information obtained under Act not prevented by Copyright Act 1994

Repeals and amendments

54 Amendments to other Acts, etc

55 References to Valuer-General in leases and other documents

56 References to this Act, etc

57 Savings relating to proceedings

58 Saving of pre-1971 definitions of improvements and value of improvements in certain cases

Transitional provisions relating to valuation rolls

59 Existing valuation rolls to continue in force

60 Territorial authorities may be required to use services of Valuation New Zealand Limited until 1 September 2000

61 Valuer-General and New Zealand Local Government Association to agree on which territorial authorities need not use Valuation New Zealand Limited

62 Saving for Auckland City Council

63 Saving in respect of rules made on or before 1 August 1998

Schedule 1
Enactments repealed

Schedule 2
Amendments to other Acts

An Act to—

(a) Provide for the Valuer-General to be a statutory officer within Land Information New Zealand; and

(b) Introduce contestability to the rating valuations market by assigning to the Valuer-General a regulatory rather than a participatory role in the preparation of district valuation rolls; and

(c) Repeal the Valuation of Land Act 1951 and generally restate the law relating to the valuation of land for rating purposes

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows: