Cherie,
The Act does not specify when a Ratepayer may make an application for a review of their category. Indeed Section 525 states:
“(1) A rateable person (or the person’s agent) may apply to the council at any time:…”
So the relevance of showing the category on every notice, I believe, is to satisfy the regulations requirements for notices.
Having said this, Section 520 still states:
“A council must give notice to each rateable person of the category declared for each parcel of land for which the person is rateable.
(2) The notice must be in the approved form…”
As there is no approved form, it would then appear to allow Council to advise the Ratepayer in any way, so long as it satisfied this section of the Act. The information on most Council Rate Notices would probably satisfy this requirement.
Ken
