BILL NO. 63

                                                   Local Bill

                 
                                                               
              3rd Session, 56th General Assembly
                         Nova Scotia
                    44 Elizabeth II, 1995

                 
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
           An Act to Permit the City of Halifax to
           Grant Tax Exemptions to the Operators of
                Container Terminals Located on
              Halifax Harbour and Bedford Basin










                 
                                                               
                                                               
              The Honourable Gerald J. O'Malley
                       Halifax Needham


                 
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                             
                 
                                                               
                           Halifax
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An Act to Permit the City of Halifax to
Grant Tax Exemptions to the Operators of
Container Terminals Located on
Halifax Harbour and Bedford Basin



         Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:


         1  This Act may be cited as the Halifax Container Terminals Tax Exemption Act.


         2    (1)  Notwithstanding the Halifax City Charter and the Assessment Act, the City of
Halifax may enter into agreements, with the operators of the container terminals located on
Halifax Port Corporation property at Pier "C" on Halifax Harbour and at Fairview Cove on
Bedford Basin, providing for the exemption of the operators from municipal taxation for the
fiscal year beginning April 1, 1995, and ending March 31, 1996, to the extent and under the
conditions provided for in the agreements.

              (2)  Where no agreement is in effect respecting such a container terminal, the
operator thereof shall be taxed in the usual manner.