Country Towns Sewerage Act Amendment Act 1967 (WA)

1967.] Country Towns Sewerage. [No. 47.

COUNTRY TOWNS SEWERAGE.

No. 47 of 1967.

AN ACT to amend the Country Towns Sewerage Act, 1948-1965, and to make provision for an increase of the maximum general rate in certain cases.

[Assented to 24th November, 1967.]

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 short title an

Towns Sewerage Act Amendment Act, 1967. citation.

(2) In this Act the Country Towns Sewerage Act, Vol.19 Reprinted

1948-1965, is referred to as the principal Act.

Acts.

Approved

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act Ngelpirgti,

may be cited as the Country Towns Sewerage Act, ;mended by	Act No. 113
1948-1967.	of 1965.

No. 47.] Country Towns Sewerage. [1967.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a date

to be fixed by proclamation.

S. 11

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

by adding after subsection (1) a subsection as

follows

Power of

Governor to	(la) Where after the coming into operation
increase

limits of

of the Country Towns Sewerage Act Amend-

maximum

rate under

ment Act, 1967, a local authority in whose

Local

Government

district a sewerage area is situate, undertakes

Act.

any works in that sewerage area and it appears

after inquiry that

(a)	the maximum general rate that the local authority may impose under the Local Government Act will not permit a sufficient amount to be provided for the construction, alteration, repair or maintenance of the works, and for payment of the instalments of capital debt and interest on any of the works with respect to which any debt is owing; and
(b)	the local authority should be per- mitted to levy a general rate beyond the limits prescribed by the Local Government Act,

the Governor may, by proclamation, grant to the local authority such permission and may in the proclamation specify new limits of the maximum general rate that the local authority may impose under the Local Government Act. .