AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

rates and land rent (relief) regulations
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Reprinted as at 8 July 1998
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Regulation
	1.	Citation
	2.	Interpretation
	3.	Rate of interest

Citation
1.	These Regulations may be cited as the Rates and Land Rent (Relief) Regulations.1
2. 	Interpretation
	In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Rates and Land Rent (Relief) Act 1970.
3. 	Rate of interest
	For the purposes of subsection 23 (3) of the Act, the prescribed rate is 16.5% per annum.

NOTES
1.	The Rates and Land Rent (Relief) Regulations  (in force under the Rates and Land Rent (Relief) Act 1970) as shown in this reprint comprise Regulations 1985 No. 16 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
	Citation of Laws—The Self-Government (Citation of Laws) Act 1989 (No. 21, 1989) altered the citation of most Ordinances so that after Self-Government day they are to be cited as Acts.  That Act also affects references in ACT laws to Commonwealth Acts.
2.	The Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 (No. 51, 1996) authorises the Parliamentary Counsel in preparing a law for republication, to make certain editorial and other formal amendments in accordance with current legislative drafting practice.  Those amendments make no change in the law.  Amendments made pursuant to that Act do not appear in the Table of Amendments but details may be obtained on request from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office.
Table of Subordinate Laws
Regulation
No.	Date of making	Date of 
notification 
in Gazette	Date of 
commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions	

1985 No. 16	28 June 1985	11 July 1985	11 July 1985		
(Reprinted as at 1 December 1997)	
No. 25, 1998	6 July 1998
	8 July 1998	8 July 1998	—	
Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended     rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision	How affected

R. 1	am. Act No. 51, 1996
R. 3	rs. No. 25, 1998