Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2018

  • revoked
  • Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2018: revoked, on 1 July 2019, by clause 4 of the Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2019 (LI 2019/130).

Reprint as at 1 July 2019

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Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2018

(LI 2018/107)

Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2018: revoked, on 1 July 2019, by clause 4 of the Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2019 (LI 2019/130).

Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias, Administrator of the Government

Order in Council

At Wellington this 26th day of June 2018

Present:
The Right Hon Winston Peters presiding in Council

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

This order is administered by the Department of Internal Affairs.

This order is made under section 3(2) of the Rates Rebate Act 1973 on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council.

Order

1 Title

This order is the Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2018.

2 Commencement

This order comes into force on 1 July 2018.

3 Section 3 of Rates Rebate Act 1973 amended

(1)

In the Rates Rebate Act 1973, section 3(1)(a)(ii), replace “$24,790” with “$25,180”.

(2)

In the Rates Rebate Act 1973, section 3(1)(b), replace “$620” with “$630”.

4 Revocation

The Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2017 (LI 2017/110) is revoked.

5 Saving

A ratepayer’s entitlement to a rebate for a rating year ending before 1 July 2018, and the amount (if any) of that rebate, must be determined as if this order had not been made.

Michael Webster,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order, which comes into force on 1 July 2018, amends section 3(1) of the Rates Rebate Act 1973. Section 3(1) provides for a rates rebate for low-income home owners. This order—

  • increases the income threshold for a rates rebate from $24,790 to $25,180; and

  • increases the maximum rates rebate from $620 to $630.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 28 June 2018.

Reprints notes
1 General

This is a reprint of the Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2018 that incorporates all the amendments to that order as at the date of the last amendment to it.

2 Legal status

Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act. A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official electronic version also has official status.

3 Editorial and format changes

Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sections 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012. See also http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/.

4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint

Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2019 (LI 2019/130): clause 4