AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Duties Amendment Act 2000
No 5 of 2000
												
An Act to amend the Duties Act 1999
[Notified in ACT Gazette S8: 1 March 2000]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
1 	Name of Act
	This Act is the Duties Amendment Act 2000.
2 	Commencement
	This Act commences on the day it is notified in the Gazette.
3 	Act amended
	This Act amends the Duties Act 1999.
4 	Insertion
	After section 213 the following section is inserted:
“213A 	Registration charges consequent on Vehicle Registration Act
“(1) 	Duty under this Chapter is not chargeable on an application to register a motor vehicle if—
	(a)	the person or people in whose names the vehicle is to be registered differ from the person or people in whose name the vehicle was last registered only because of a difference between the Motor Traffic Act 1936 (as in force immediately before its repeal) and the Vehicle Registration Act; and
	(b)	the Minister has, by writing, exempted the application from duty.
“(2) 	An exemption under paragraph (1) (b) is a disallowable instrument.
“(3) 	This section ceases to have effect on 1 March 2002.”.
5 	Rectification of errors in registration
	Section 224 is amended by adding at the end the following subsections:
“(2) 	However, duty is not chargeable under this section on an application to register a motor vehicle if—
	(a)	the registration details sought to be rectified were included in an application for registration on which duty was not chargeable because of section 213A; and
	(b)	the Minister has, by writing, exempted the application for rectification from duty.
“(3) 	An exemption under paragraph (2) (b) is a disallowable instrument.
“(4) 	Subsections (2) and (3) and this subsection cease to have effect on 31 March 2002.”.
	
Endnote
Act amended
1	Act 1999 No 7 (not republished).  See also Act 1999 No 79.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 17 February 2000]

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