Amendment of Canberra Sewerage and Water Supply Regulations (ACT)

THE TERRITORY FOR THE SEAT OF

GOVERNMENT.

Regulations under the Building and Services

Ordinance 1924-1928.

PURSUANT to the powers conferred upon me by the Building and Services Ordinance 1924-1928, I, Arthur - Blakeley, the Minister	of State for Home Affairs, hereby make the following Regulation to
come into operation as from the 1st January, 1931."
Dated this twenty-eighth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.

ARTHUR BLAKELEY .

. ' Minister of. State for Home Affairs.

AMENDMENT OF CANBERRA SEWERAGE AND WATER

SUPPLY REGULATIONS.

Regulations 95, 95A, and 95B of the Canberra.Sewerage and Water Supply Regulations are repealed and the following Regulation inserted in their stead:—

anTwaterH,lM respect to each year for sewerage and water services in the City Area charges for " 95.—(1.) Subject to this regulation, the charges to be made with

shall be as follows:— .

(a) the charge for Sewerage service in respect of each parcel of land shall be at the rate of twopence half-penny for each pound of .the unimproved capital value of the laud; and

(b) the charge for water, in respect of each parcel of land shall be at the rate of threepence half-penny for each pound of the unimproved capital value of the land.

(2/:-) Where water is supplied to any parcel of land through a meter, the charge for the water supplied may, in lieu of the charge prescribed by the last preceding sub-regulation, be at the rate .of One • shilling and threepence per thousand gallons- shown by the meter to have been consumed, unless the amount payable as charges for water based upon the unimproved capital value of the land is greater.

(3.) The minimum amount payable in respect of water supplied to any premises through a meter shall be One pound per annum, and the minimum amount payable in respect of water supplied to any premises based upon the unimproved capital value of the land shall be Ten shillings per annum.

(4.) The minimum amount payable in respect of sewerage charges

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

based upon the unimproved capital value of .the land shall be Ten

shillings per. annum. <• .

(5.) The owner, lessee, tenant, occupier or holder of a parcel of

land shall be liable to pay the charges made by this regulation in

. r ' respect of that land for the period during which he was the owner, lessee, tenant, occupier, or holder, as the case may 'be,, of the land, and the charges may be recovered accordingly in any court of competent

jurisdiction:  •

Provided that the charges in respect of any one period shall not be recoverable both from the owner and,from any other person.

(6.) Where land is leased from the Commonwealth, the amount of the charges payable in respect of that land for any year shall be such an ambiftit as bears the same proportion to the amount of the charges payable for the whole year as the portion of the year during

. which the lease subsists bears to a period of twelve months, and, if the amount of the charges paid in respect of that year on the assessed value of the land exceeds the amount so payable, the Minister may refund the excess to the lessee.

(7.) Eor. the purposes of this regulation the unimproved capital value of the laud shall be the unimproved capital value of the land.as assessed in pursuance of the provisions of the Bates Ordinance 1926-1931, and existing at the time of making such charges."