Country Towns Sewerage Act Amendment Act 1951 (WA)

1951.] Country Towns Sewerage. [No. 15.

COUNTRY TOWNS SEWERAGE.

15° Geo. VI., No. XV.

No. 15 of 1951.

AN ACT to amend the Country Towns Sewerage

Act, 1948

[Assented to 23rd November, 1951.] BE it enacted by the King'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:-

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Country Towns Sewerage Act Amendment Act, 1951, and shall be read as one with the Country Towns Sewerage Act, 1948 (Act No. 82 of 1948), referred to in this Act as the principal Act.

1.

Citation of

The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Country Towns Sewerage Act, 1948-

principal

Act as

amended by

this Act.

1951.

S. 36

2.

Subsection (1) of section thirty-five of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "land" in line four, the words, "whether rateable or not". amended.

3.

No. 15.] Country Towns Sewerage. [1951.

Ss. 72A and

72B added. 4. The following sections are added to the

principal Act-

Power to

prescribe	72A.	The Minister may prescribe and levy
charges for

sewerage

charges for any sewerage services rendered by

services. Cf.

Water Supply

Metropolitan

him in respect of non-rateable land.

Act, 1909-

1941,

reprinted

21/2/50, s. 101.

Power to

The Minister may, instead of or as well to the provisions of section sixty-six of this Act; or prescribing and levying a charge pursuant to the provisions of the last preceding section, prescribe and levy charges for the admission of sewage into any sewer.

Prescribe 72B.

charges for

admission of	as making and levying a sewerage rate pursuant
sewage into
sewers.
S. 75

amended. 5. Section seventy-five of the principal Act is

amended by

(a)	adding after the word, "made" in line one of subsection (1), the words, "or charges prescribed";
(b)	adding after the word, "rates" in line one of subsection (2), in line two of subsection (3) and in line five of subsection (3), the words, "or charges";
(c)	adding after the word, "rated", appearing firstly in line three of subsection (1) and secondly in line three of subsection (2), the words, "or of the land in respect of which the charge is levied as the case may be".

S. 76

amended.	6. Section seventy-six of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "rates", appear- ing firstly in line one and secondly in line four, the words, "or charges".
S. 77

amended. 7. The following subsection is added to section

seventy-seven of the principal Act

(4) In this section the word, "rate" includes a charge prescribed pursuant to the provisions of section seventy-two A of this Act, and the word, "rated" has a correlative meaning.

1951.] Country Towns Sewerage. [No. 15.

8.	Section seventy-eight of the principal Act is	B. 18
amended.

amended by adding after the word, "rates" in line

two, the words, "or charges".

9.    Section seventy-nine of the principal Act is emended.

amended by adding after the word, "made" in line

one, the words, "or charge prescribed".

10. Subsection (1) of section eighty-three of the	amended.
S. 83

principal Act is amended by adding after the word,

"rates" in line two, the words, "or charges".

11. Paragraph (10) of section one hundred and	S. 102
amended.

two of the principal Act is amended by

(a)	adding after the word, "rates" in line three, the words, "or charges";
(b)	adding after the word, "period" in line three, the words, "and prescribing charges for sewage so discharged in excess of that quantity".

Act- 12. The following section is added to the principal fur

payable under this Act may be expressed in iggzand 102A. Any fees or charges imposed by or Zre;rei%ate

any by-law to apply only in relation to any particular areas or districts, or to differentiate between particular areas or districts, and, where so expressed, shall have effect accordingly.