Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2025
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Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2025
Cindy Kiro, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 7th day of April 2025
Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council
This order is made under section 3(2) of the Rates Rebate Act 1973 on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council.
Order
1 Title
This order is the Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2025.
2 Commencement
This order comes into force on 1 July 2025.
3 Principal Act
Clause 4 amends the Rates Rebate Act 1973.
4 Section 3 amended (Rates rebate)
(1)
In section 3(1)(a)(ii), replace “$31,510”
with “$32,210”
.
(2)
In section 3(1)(b), replace “$790”
with “$805”
.
5 Revocation
The Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2024 (SL 2024/43) is revoked.
6 Saving
A ratepayer’s entitlement to a rebate for a rating year ending before 1 July 2025, and the amount (if any) of that rebate, must be determined as if this order had not been made.
Rachel Hayward,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the order but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This order, which comes into force on 1 July 2025, amends section 3(1) of the Rates Rebate Act 1973. That section provides for a rates rebate for low-income home owners.
This order—
increases the income threshold for a rates rebate from $31,510 to $32,210; and
increases the maximum rates rebate from $790 to $805.
Date of notification in Gazette: 10 April 2025.
This order is administered by the Department of Internal Affairs.
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Rates Rebate (Specified Amounts) Order 2025
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