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The Bill provides: the municipal rates for 1990-91 to be 1.312 per cent of unimproved value for land in the city area and 0.656 per cent of unimproved value for rural land; land tax to be levied at the rate of 1 per cent of unimproved value; the continued charging of interest on unpaid rates and land tax accounts which the amendments of last year inadvertently discontinue after 30 June 1990; the interest rate set down in the Act for unpaid rates and land tax accounts to continue to apply on judgment debts in line with section 31 of the Taxation (Administration) Act 1987 rather than being substituted by a lower charge imposed under section 228 of the Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) Ordinance 1982; the Commissioner for ACT Revenue to recover outstanding general rates, land tax, and relevant interest payments from the debtors of defaulting rates and land tax payers, which provision already applies to other revenue laws under section 43 of the Taxation (Administration) Act 1987; the purchaser/transferee of a lease to notify details of acquisition of land to the Commissioner for ACT Revenue; and for the dates of applying rates and land tax charges where land values have been changed because of clerical error or change of circumstance to be, in the case of a clerical error, the date that would have applied had the error not occurred, and, in the case of any change in circumstance, the date of that change in circumstance.
Mr Speaker, I now present the explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Ms Follett) adjourned.
WATER SUPPLY (CHEMICAL TREATMENT) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (4.41): Mr Speaker, I present the Water Supply (Chemical Treatment) (Amendment) Bill 1990. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Mr Speaker, four weeks ago in the Assembly the Standing Committee on Social Policy sought to have the reporting date on the fluoride inquiry extended to allow it to take into account the view of Australia's foremost medical research body, the National Health and Medical Research Council. The council is at this stage awaiting an evaluation by the United States national toxicology program of a recent study on chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity of sodium fluoride. The Assembly quite properly agreed to this request, and the reporting date has now been extended from 31 May 1990 to 29 November 1990.
Last year the issue of fluoridation of the ACT water supply was hotly debated by the Assembly, and the decision to remove fluoride without reasonable consultation and a proper investigation created an adverse public response.
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