This Act may be cited as the Manukau City Empowering (Farm Land Rating) Act 1969.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

Any occupier of farm land within the district having a rateable value in excess of $6,000 may, by the 28th day of February in any year, apply in writing to the Council for the postponement of payment in accordance with this Act of portion of the general rates that will become due and payable in respect of that land for the next ensuing rating period.

Every such application shall be signed by the applicant and shall be left at the office of the Council or sent by post addressed to the Council at that office.

Where an application is made to the Council under section 3 of this Act, and the Council is satisfied that the property in respect of which the application is made is farm land situated within the district and has a rateable value in excess of $6,000, the Council shall grant the application and notify the applicant accordingly.

If the Council is not so satisfied, it shall refuse the application, and give notice in writing to the applicant of its refusal, stating the ground or grounds on which the application has been refused, and advising him of his right to object to the refusal in accordance with section 5 of this Act.

Any person whose application has been refused pursuant to section 4 of this Act may object to the decision of the Council.

The provisions of subsections (3) to (5) of section 90 of the Rating Act 1967 shall, with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to objections under this section as if reference in those subsections to a territorial authority were references to the Council.

Subject to section 7 of this Act and to subsection (2) of this section, where an application for postponement under section 3 of this Act has been granted for any rating period in respect of any farm land payment of the general rate made and levied by the Council for that period in respect of that land shall be deemed to be postponed to the extent of an amount which—

Where payment of portion of the general rate in respect of any land for any period is deemed to be postponed pursuant to Part V of the Rating Act 1967 (as applied by section 2 of the Manukau City Empowering (Rates Postponement) Act 1967) the amount of the general rate payable for that period in respect of that land shall, for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, not include the amount deemed to be postponed pursuant to that Part of that Act.

Subject to section 8 of this Act, the provisions of subsections (3) and (4) of section 93, of sections 94 to 102, and of sections 105 to 107, of the Rating Act 1967, as far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, shall apply with respect to every application for postponement of rates under this Act, as if—

Notwithstanding that any decision of the Council granting an application under section 3 of this Act for postponement of the payment of rates payable in respect of any land has ceased to have effect by reason only of the fact that the interest in the land of the person who was the occupier at the date of the granting of the application has become vested in some other person (not being his or her spouse or former spouse or the executor or administrator of his or her estate),—