|
|
Minister may arrange for collection of rates through Post Office.
|
6.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment requiring a local authority to collect and levy any rate made by it through duly authorized rate collectors, the Minister may by rules to be made by him after consultation with the Postmaster-General, and with the approval of the Minister for Finance, do all or any of the following things either generally or with respect to any particular local authority or authorities that is to say:—
|
|
| |
(a) provide for the service of demands for the payment of any rate made by a local authority through and by means of the Post Office,
|
|
| |
(b) provide for the payment into and the collection through the Post Office of any rate so demanded, and that the receipt of the appropriate officer of the Post Office for any rate so paid or collected shall be a good discharge to the person paying the same,
|
|
| |
(c) provide for the payment to the Post Office of a commission or poundage on all or any rates collected through the Post Office,
|
|
| |
(d) prescribe the forms to be used in respect of the service of demands for and the payment and collection of rates through the Post Office,
|
|
| |
(e) provide for and prescribe all such matters and things as shall be consequential on or ancillary to all or any of the matters aforesaid.
|
|
| |
(2) Whenever the Minister shall have made rules under this section for the service of demands for, and the payment and collection of, rates made by a local authority, such local authority may appoint such of their officers or other persons as shall be approved by the Minister to perform such of the duties of rate collectors in relation to the recovery of rates as are not carried out by means of the Post Office under the rules aforesaid, and every officer or person so appointed shall have the like powers as a rate collector now has for the recovery of rates, and shall also be entitled to sue in his own name for rates due to such local authority and to give valid receipts therefor and shall be subject to the like control by the Minister as rate collectors are now subject to.
|
|
| |
(3) This section shall only apply to poor-rate and other rates made by a local authority for the service of any of the local financial years ending on the 31st day of March, 1924, the 31st day of March, 1925, or the 31st day of March, 1926, respectively, or for the service of any previous local financial year.
|
