Rating Act, 1997 (Cap. 192).

Country/Territory: Zambia
Document type: Legislation
Date: 1997 (2006)
Source: FAO, FAOLEX
Long title: An Act to provide for the declaration of rateable areas; to make provision for the assessment of rateable property, to provide for the levying of rates; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.

Subject: Land & soil
Keyword: Land valuation Tax/levy Institution
Geographical area: Africa, Eastern Africa, Landlocked Developing Nations, Least Developed Countries
Entry into force notes: Entry into force on such date as the Minister may, by statutory instrument, appoint.

Abstract: Part III of the Act provides for the valuation of rateable areas by a valuation surveyor appointed under provisions of Part II. The Minister may after consultation with the rating authority concerned, meaning the Council within whose boundaries a rateable area falls, for the purposes of rating assessment: (a) declare any area within the council boundary to be a rateable area; (b) alter the boundary of any rateable area. Rateable property within a rateable area shall be: (a) land which is alienat
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Legislation | Zambia | 1982 (2006)

Keyword: Land valuation, Agricultural land, Protected area

Source: FAO, FAOLEX