Local Government (Temporary Reduction of Valuation) Act, 1954

PART IV.

Amendment and Extension of Local Government (Remission of Rates) Act, 1940.

Amendment and extension.

8.—(1) Subsection (1) of section 1 of the Local Government (Remission of Rates) Act, 1940 (No. 8 of 1940), is hereby amended by the deletion, in the definition of the expression “the prescribed period”, of the date “the 31st day of March, 1953”, inserted therein by the Local Government (Remission of Rates) Act, 1952 (No. 23 of 1952), and the substitution therefor of the date “the 31st day of March, 1954”.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the coming into operation of the Local Government (Remission of Rates) Act, 1940 .

(3) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections of this section, the Local Government (Remission of Rates) Act, 1940 shall be deemed not to apply in respect of any erection, enlargement or improvement begun on or after the 27th day of July, 1953, and in that Act “erection”, “enlargement” and “improvement” shall be construed accordingly.