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The Act contains amendments relating to rating. The following amendments commenced on 1 January 2009: a) abolished minimum rates, (b) increased the minimum rateable area to 10 hectares, (c) made provision (as a transitional measure) for the making of rates during the 2009 calendar year. The amendments due to commence on 1 January 2010: (a) remove the concept of “notional carrying capacity” of land (being the number of stock that the relevant livestock health and pest authority assessed could be maintained on the land) as the basis for the making and levying of rates, (b) provide that rates may consist of a base amount and an amount calculated on a per hectare basis, (c) provide that livestock health and pest authorities may, in accordance with any regulations under the Principal Act or any guidelines given by the State Management Council of Livestock Health and Pest Authorities (the State Council), if any, divide their districts into zones and make and levy different rates for different zones, and (d) make amendments to the Agricultural Livestock (Disease Control Funding) Act 1998 and the Meat Industry Act 1978 consequent on the abolition of the concept of notional carrying capacity of land.
Amends: Rural Lands Protection Act 1998, No. 143. (2009-01-27)
