141   Payment of rates to livestock health and pest authorities in Western Division

(1)  In this section, authority means a livestock health and pest authority for a livestock health and pest district within the meaning of the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998.

(2)  There shall, subject to this section, be payable to an authority an amount equal to the amount that would have been payable to the authority under Part 7 of the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 by way of rates for any period, in respect of all lands within its district reserved as national parks or historic sites or dedicated as nature reserves or karst conservation reserves, had those lands been ratable lands under that Act at all relevant times after they were so reserved or dedicated.

(3)  No amount is payable under subsection (2) except upon an application:

(a)  made to the Director-General in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed time, and

(b)  containing the prescribed particulars.

(4)  Any dispute between the Director-General and an authority with respect to the particulars contained in an application or the amount payable under this section shall be determined in accordance with such directions as the Minister, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture, may give.

(5)  Nothing in this section requires or authorises the payment of an amount in relation to any period before the commencement day.