Country Areas Water Supply Act Amendment Act (No. 3) 1979 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

COUNTRY AREAS WATER

SUPPLY (No. 3).

No. 92 of 1979.

AN ACT to amend the Country Areas Water Supply

Act, 1947-1979.

[Assented to 17th December, 1979.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Country =atm

Areas Water Supply Act Amendment Act (No. 3),

1979.

(2) In this Act the Country Areas Water Supply

Act, 1947-1979 is referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Country Areas Water Supply Act, 1947-1979.

Section 47

amended.	2. Section 47 of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word "thereof" in the last line the passage "and the rateable value as determined under subsection (2) of section fifty-four of this Act".
Section 54

amended. 3. Section 54 of the principal Act is amended

(a)	by deleting the word "The" in line one and substituting the passage "Subject to this section, the"; and
(b)	by designating the existing section as sub- section (1) and adding the following sub- sections

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the Minister may determine in respect of a financial year that the gross rental value set against rateable land in a rate book kept by the Minister under this Act, other than rateable land the value of which has been altered for that financial year pursuant to a general valuation under the Valuation of Land Act, 1978, shall be increased by such factor as he may determine and the gross rental value as so increased shall, subject to any adjustments which may be necessary by virtue of section sixty-two A or section sixty-nine of this Act, from the beginning of that year constitute the rateable value of that land for the purposes of this Act.

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(3) Where the gross rental value of rateable land has been increased under subsection (2) of this section, any further increase under that subsection shall be made in relation to the rateable value as so increased. .

Section 61

4. Section 61 of the principal Act is amended by amended.

designating the existing section as subsection (1)

and adding the following subsection

(2) There shall be no objection or appeal in respect of any increase of gross rental value made under subsection (2) of section fifty- four. .

5.    Section 65 of the principal Act is amended— =a

(a) in subsection (1), by deleting the words "gross rental value" in line thirteen and in lines fourteen and fifteen and sub- stituting in each case the words "rateable value";

(b) in subsection (1a)—

by deleting paragraph (a) and sub-

(i)  stituting the following

(a)

determine by reference either

to-

(i) a specified amount; or

(ii)  a percentage of the previous year's basic water rate; or

(iii)  a percentage of an amount equivalent to the previous year's basic water rate as amended under subsec- tion (2) of section

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sixty-nine of this Act divided by the number of months used in assessing that basic water rate and mul- tiplied by twelve,

the maximum amount of the basic water rate to be paid in respect of any holding, or as the case may be, any part of a holding classified for the purposes of section sixty- three A of this Act; and ;

and

(ii) by deleting the words "gross rental value" and substituting the words "rateable value"; and

(c) by inserting after subsection (la) a subsec-

tion as follows

(lb) A notice under subsection (la) of this section, as amended by the Country Areas Water Supply Act Amendment Act (No. 3), 1979, may be given with retro- spective effect to any financial year commencing on or after 1st July, 1978 and any adjustments rendered necessary by such a notice shall be made.