1 Short Title and commencement

• (1) This Act may be cited as the Rates Rebate Amendment Act 1978, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Rates Rebate Act 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

  (2) This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of April 1979.

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• [Repealed]

  Section 2 was repealed, as from 1 April 1980, by section 9(1) Local Government Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 59).

3 Rates rebate

• (1) This subsection substituted s 3(1) of the principal Act.

  (2) The Rates Rebate Order 1978 (SR 1978/122) is hereby consequentially revoked.

  (3) Where after the commencement of this Act application is made by any ratepayer for a rebate of any rates payable for a rating year that commenced before the commencement of this Act, the ratepayer's entitlement to a rebate and the amount of the rebate shall be determined as if subsections (1) and (2) of this section had not been enacted.

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