Building and Services Act 1925 (ACT)

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[Extract from Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. No. 94, dated 5th

November, 1925.]

I THE TERRITORY FOR THE SEAT OF

GOVERNMENT.

No. 9 of 1925.

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Building and Services Ordinance 924.

BE it ordained by the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, with the advice of the Federal Executive Council,	in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Seat of Government Accept-
ance Act 1909 and the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910, as follows :—

1.—(I.) This Ordinance may be cited. as the Building ci?id Ssfviccs short title and

Ordinance 1925.	citation.
(2.) The Building and Services Ordinance 1924 is in this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.
(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance, may be cited as the Building and Services Ordinance 1924-1925.
2. After section one of the Principal Ordinance the following section is inserted :—

" I A. In this Ordinance, unless the contrary intention appears :— Definition 1 Commission ' means the Federal Capital Commission appointed

under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1924."

3. After section three of the Principal Ordinance the following section is inserted :-

" 4.—(I.) The Commission may make regulations, not inconsistent Emulations.

with this Ordinance, repealing, amending, or adding to regulations made by the Minister under any provision of the Building and Services Ordinance 1924. and may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Ordinance, prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to this Ordinance, and in particular describing matters providing for and in relation to—

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(a) the conditions subject to which buildings may be erected

• in the Territory ;

(b) the conditions upon which sewerage, water and electric

services may be supplied in the Territory ;

(c) the charges to be made for services supplied in pursuance

of this Ordinance ;

(d) the purposes for which, and the" conditions upon which,

licences may be issued and the fees payable therefor ;

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(c) the imposition of penalties not exceeding Fifty pounds, or imprisonment for three months for offences against any regulations made under this Ordinance, and, where the offence is a continuing offence, a penalty not exceeding Five pounds per day during the period for which the offence continues. I

" (2.) All regulations made by the Commission under this Ordin- ance shall—

(a) be notified in the Gazette ; and

(b) be forwarded to the Minister forthwith.

" (3) regula t ions made under this Ordinance shall be. subject to disallowance by the Governor-General a t any time within thir ty davs after their notification in the Gazette, and any regulation so disallowed shall cease to have effect from the date of publication of the disal- lowance in the Gazette.	I
" (4) Evidence of anv regulation made under this Ordinance m a r be given in all Courts by the production of the Gazette purporting to contain it, or by the production of a document purport ing to be a copy thereof and purport ing to be printed by the Government Printer or

' by the authority of the Government of the Commonwealth."

iWiitionof	4 . All regulations purporting to have been made under any pro- vision of the Building and Services Ordinance 1924 shall be deemed to have been duly made.
Dated the twenty-eighth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

STONEHAVEN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

THOS. W. CRAWFORD,

for Minister of State for Home and Territories.

By Authority : H. .1. GREEN, Government Printer, Melbourne