New South Wales: Moruya Municipal Council Enabling Act of 1896 60 Vic (NSW)

Netw South Wales, ANNO SEXAGESIMO VICTORLE REGINE. An Act to enable the Council of the Muni- 'errs Mesicipat. CouNcIL cipality of Moruye to recover rates for the 2s: year 1895 to 1896 on the basis of the rate imposed for the year 1894 to 1895, and for other purposes in connection therewith. [4th September, 1896. ] HEREAS the Council of the Municipality of Moruya omitted to Preamble. comply with section one hundred and sixty-four of the Muni- cipalities Act of 1867 by not making an estimate and imposing a rate as provided in that section for the year one thousand cight hundred and ninety-five to one thousand cight hundred and ninety-six : And whereas it is expedient that the rate made and imposed for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four to one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five be adopted as the rate for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five to one thousand cight hundred and ninety-six : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent J Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 1. The rate imposed by the said council for the year one Rate for 1894 to thousand eight hundred and ninety -four to one thousand eight hundred Re RTT and ninety- "five shall be the rate for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five to one thousand cight hundred and ninety-six, and shall be taken to have been duly made and imposed for such last mentioned year in all respects as if it had been made and imposed for that year within the time limited by section one hundred and sixty- four of the Municipalities Act of 1867, and as if the other provisions of the said section had been duly complied with. 2. Power to recover rates, Short title. 60° VIC. 1896. Capertee Tramway. 2. It shall be lawful for the council to prosecute any actions, or suits, or other proceedings necessary for the recovery of rates without any further assessment or delivery of rate papers or notices ; and no defendant in any such action, suit, or other proceeding as aforesaid shall be entitled to set up as a defence any non-compliance by the council with the provisions of the said one hundred and sixty-fourth section, and the council may retain all moneys which have been paid to it for rates, notwithstanding such non-compliance as aforesaid. 3. This Act may be cited as the "Moruya Municipal Council Enabling Act of 1896."