Amendment of Canberra Sewerage and Water Supply Regulations (ACT)

THE TERRITORY FOR THE SEAT

OF GOVERNMENT.

Federal Capital Commission.

R E G U L A T I O N S U N D E R T H E B U I L D I N G A N D S E R V I C E S

O R D I N A N C E J924-1928.

P U R S U A N T to the powers conferred upon it hy the Building and

Services Ordinance 1924-1928, the Federal Capital Commission, appointed under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1924- 1929, hereby makes the following Regulation to come into operation as from the 1st January , 1930.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of February, One thousand nine hundred

and thirty.

The common seal of the Federal Capital Commission was hereunto

duly affixed in the presence of—

A. J. C H R I S T I E

Chief Commissioner.

Secretary.

C. S. D A L E Y (L .S . )

AMENDMENT OK CANBERRA SEWERAGE AND WATER SUPPLY REGULATIONS.

After Regulation 95A of the Canberra Sewerage and Water Supply

Regulations the following Regulation is inserted:—-

charges for	" 95B . (1) Subject to this regulation, the charges to be made (a) the charge for sewerage service in respect of each parcel of land shall be at the rate of twopence halfpenny for each pound of the unimproved capital value of the land; and
se™vice8and	f01' t'10 year 1930 iii respect of sewerage and water services in the
wat«r for 1930.	Q[ty Area shall be as follows:—

(fo) the charge for water in respect of each parcel of laud shall be at the rate of threepence halfpenny for each pound of the unimproved capital value of the land;

Provided that the minimum charge for water service under this sub-regulation shall be Ten shilling's.

(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, he at the rate of One shilling and threepence per thousand gallons shown by the meter to have been consumed:

Provided that the minimum charge under this sub-regulation shall be One pound.

(3) The owner, lessee, tenant, occupier or holder of a parcel of land shall be liable to pay the charges made by this regulation in respect of that land for the year or that portion of the year 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.

(4) Where land is leased from the Commission, the amount of the charges paj'able in respect of that laud for any year shall be such an amount 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 hears to a period of twelve months,	and, if the amount of the charges paid in respect of that year ou
the assessed value of the land exceeds the amount so payable, the Commission may refund the excess to the lessee.
(5) For the purposes of this regulation the unimproved capital value of the land shall be the unimproved capital value of the land as assessed for the vear 1930 in pursuance of the provisions of the Bates Ordinance 19"26-1929."