Brisbane Water Supply Amendment Act of 1905 (5 Edw VII No. 23) (Qld)

9030 WATER SUPPLY. BrisbMle Water Suppl.'If Amendment Act. 5 EDW. VII. No. 23, WATER SUPPLY. SEdw.VII. An Act to Amend "The Brisbane Water Supply N; ~ ! 3. Acts, 1889-1902," in certain particulars. BRISBANE BE Ws ATER UPPLY ic~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ . [ASSENTED TO 20TH D.ECE~1BER, 1905.J it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and. Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :- . Short title 1. This Act shall be read as one with " The Brisbane acnondstruction. Water Supply Acts, 1889- 1~ 02, " * and may be cited there- with as "The Brisbane Water Supply Acts, 1889 to 1905," or separately as " The Brisbane Water Su.pply Amendment .Act of 1~ 05. " "The B1-isbane Water Supply Act of 1889 "t is hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act. Supply to Botanic Gardens. Supply to hospitals. Basis of rating. 2. The following section is inserted after section twenty-five of the Principal Act:- [25A.] The Board shall provide, without any payment, for use in the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, a supply of water not exceeding five million gallons in quantity in any year. The ·Board shall also provide, without any payment, to each of the hospitals hereunder mentioned, a supply of water not exceeding in any year the quantity mentioned respectively in connection with each such hospital, that is to say,- Brisbane General Hospital, five million gallons; Sick Children's Hospital, five hundred thousand gallons ; Lady Bowen Lying-in Hospital, four hundred thousand gallons; Lady Lamington Hospital for Women, three hun- dred thousand gallons. 3. Section fifty-three of the Principal Act is repealed, and the following section is inserted in lieu thereof : - The Board shall define, by By-laws, the basis upon which water rates shall be assessed, which basis may be- e a) The annual value of the land as determined by the last preceding valuation made by the Local Authgrity within whose A.rea the land is • 53 Vic. No. 9, aupra, page 3818, and 2 Edw. VII. No. 14, supra, page 8586. t 53 Vie. No. 9, 8Ifpra, page 3818.

WATER SUPPLY. 9031 23, 1905. Brisbane Water supply Amendment Act. situated, for which purpose the Local Autho- rities shall furnish to the Board copies of the ply vthaeluiraAtiorenalsi;stosrin force for the time being in (b) The total superficial area of the floors measured ] externally in the buildings, if any, erected on the land; or sty, The uses to which the land or such buildings gis- are put; or d in The mean height of the land above sea level; or me, Any basis arrived at by taking into consideration any two or more of the above-mentioned bases; ane or re- (f) Any other basis fixed by the Board: 5," Provided that— ent (L) One basis may be fixed in. respect of some lands, of and another basis may be fixed in respect of other lands; (ii.) In respect of land which is not rateable for the ion purposes of the Local Government A cts, the basis shall always be the total superficial area ent, of the floors measured as aforesaid in the ater buildings erected thereon; the rate may never- ear. theless vary in respect of different classes of ent, such lands, and the proportion of the rate to y of such superficial area need not be the same as in ned the case of lands which are rateable under the t is Local Government Acts and are assessed on that basis ; The By-laws may fix a minimum amount of and rate which shall be payable in respect of any land, irrespective of the basis on which the red rate is assessed; Where a rate is assessed on the basis of the un- total superficial area of the floors measured as aforesaid in the buildings erected on the land, ed, rthaeteBiyn- lraewspsemctayofpraonvyideexfcoexssa breedyuocntidonceorftathine specified areas. pon — 4. The following paragraph is added to section sixty ocbayl 'of th"ePPrroivnicdipeadltAhactt t:h—e By-laws may-- d is (a) Fiinx raemspiencitmoufmwaamteor usnutpwplhieicdhtoshaanllybceopnasyuambeler Mpaiynmimeunmt. . during any year or part of a year;

9032 WATER SUPPLY. Brisbane Water Supply Amendment Act. 5 EDW. VII. No. 23, 1905. Reduction of price. (b) Provide for a reduction in the price of water so supplied in excess of a specified quantity." Amendment 5. In section seventy-five of the Principal Act, after oPfrisn. c7i5paolfAct, the word " meter," the words " or under any agreement or otherwise howsoever, or in respect of any pipes or fittings or other chattels supplied by the Board"are inserted. Charge for • water supplied to lands not rateable. 6. The following subsection is added to section eighty- five of the Principal Act :— (16) Fixing scales of charges for water supplied to lands which are not rateable for the purposes of the Local Government Acts, which charges, in the discretion of the Board, may be determined by rate assessed in accordance with the provi- sions of section fifty-three of this Act or by measurement of the water supplied, and may vary from the charges made for water supplied to other lands and determined in a similar manner, and may also vary in respect of the different classes of lands not so rateable. 7. After section eighty-two of the Principal Act, the following sections are inserted :— Discount for [82A.] The Board may, if it sees fit, allow to any person pparoymmpent t of liable to pay any rates or any sum due in respect of water rates, Soo supplied by meter or under agreement or otherwise, who pays the whole of such amount within thirty days after notice given to him of such liability, a percentage by way of discount. Power to [82B.] Notwithstanding anything contained in this ovfarcyhaarmgoesu. nts Act, whether water is charged for by way of rating or by measurement of the quantity supplied or otherwise, the By-laws may provide for an increase or reduction of the price in accordance with the purpose for which lands or any buildings erected thereon are used. Validation of 8. All By-laws heretofore made and still remaining B Y-laws' unrepealed by the Board, and which would have been valid if made under the powers conferred by " The Brisbane Water Supply Acts, 1889 to 1905," shall be and be deemed to have been as valid as if they had been made under the said Acts, and shall be and remain in force until they are repealed or amended by other By-laws or otherwise under the said Acts. By Authority: GEORGE ARTHUR VAUGHAN, Government Printer, Brisbane.