New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HERITAGE ACT 1977 - SECT 127

127 Payment of rates and taxes

(1) Where land is subject to a listing on the State Heritage Register, a rating or taxing authority which would, but for this Act, make and levy a rate or levy a tax on a valuation for rating or taxing purposes of that land shall make and levy that rate or levy that tax on the heritage valuation of that land derived from that valuation for rating or taxing purposes.

(2) Where a heritage valuation is made with respect to land pursuant to a request made by the Minister under section 124 (1), the amount of any rates or taxes payable in respect of that land shall be redetermined on the basis of that heritage valuation as from the date determined in accordance with section 124 (1) (a) or (b), as the case may be, of that heritage valuation and any amount paid in excess shall be refunded and any amount short-paid shall be recoverable as arrears.

(3) Where land ceases to be subject to a listing on the State Heritage Register, the amount of any rates or taxes levied in respect of that land shall, as from the date on which that land ceases to be subject to that listing on the State Heritage Register, be redetermined on the basis of the valuation for rating or taxing purposes of that land and any amount paid in excess shall be refunded and any amount short-paid shall be recoverable as arrears.