Third Session, Thirty-Eighth Legislature

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Bill 37

THE MUNICIPAL ASSESSMENT AMENDMENT ACT

(Assented to                                         )

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

C.C.S.M. c. M226 amended

1

The Municipal Assessment Act is amended by this Act.

2

The definition "council" in subsection 1(1) is amended by replacing everything before clause (a) with the following:

"council" means the council of a municipality and, except in subsection 6(1.1), includes

3

The following is added after subsection 6(1):

Regulations re varying portions

6(1.1)

The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations authorizing a council, by by-law, to

(a) vary a percentage described under clause (1)(c) by an amount, or within a range, fixed in the regulation; and

(b)  prescribe the class or classes of assessable property that the variation may apply to.

Consequential amendment, S.M. 2002, c. 39

4

The centred heading before section 331 and section 331 of The City of Winnipeg Charter are repealed.

Coming into force

5

This Act comes into force on a day to be fixed by proclamation.