ontario regulation 140/03

made under the

education act

Made: April 2, 2003
Filed: April 11, 2003
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: April 26, 2003

LEVYING OF CERTAIN RATES FOR Prior Years before 2003

May levy rates for prior years before January 1, 2003

1. (1) Despite any provision of the Education Act, the Municipal Act or the Provincial Land Tax Act, a municipality or board that is required to levy rates in territory without municipal organization for the 1999, 2000 or 2001 taxation year for school purposes, for the purposes of subsection 255 (1) of the Education Act or for the purposes of section 21.1 of the Provincial Land Tax Act, may meet the requirement by levying the rates at any time before January 1, 2003.

(2) For the purposes of a levy for the 1999, 2000 or 2001 taxation year carried out after the end of that year and before January 1, 2003, the board or municipality shall levy the rates on the real property that is taxable for school purposes as shown on the assessment roll returned for taxation in that year.

(3) If a board or municipality that passed a by-law under subsection 399 (5) of the  Municipal Act subsequently levies for a taxation year under a regulation made under clause 257.14 (1) (i) of the Education Act, the by-law applies to payments on account of taxes received in a year after the levy but before 2003.

(4) In this section, references to the Municipal Act are to that Act as it read prior to January 1, 2003.

Commencement

2. This Regulation shall be deemed to have come into force on January 1, 1999.

Elizabeth Witmer

Minister of Education

Dated on April 2, 2003.