District Councils Act 1882 (SA)

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO QUlNTO ET QUADltAGESlMO

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An Act to amend 'L The District Councils Act, 1876."

[Asse&d to, Azcgz,6st joth, 1882.1

AS i t is desirable t o amend " The District Councils Preamtle.

W """" Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Act, 1876 "-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the

Legislative Council and the House of Assembly, in this present

Parliament assembled, as follows:

according to the full estimated annual rent (clear of all uut- goings) at which the whole would let for a term of fourteen

1, This Act may be cited for all purposes as The District short title.

Councils Amendment Act, 1882."

2. Section 121 of "The District Councils Act, 1876," is hereby ~ q e a l o f ~ection 121

of " The District

repealed, save and except as to any matter or thing heretofore law-	Act,
fully done under the said section, and the said Act shall be read and construed as if clause 3 of this ,4ct had bcen inserted in The District Councils Act, 1876," in lieu of section 121 of that Act.

3. Whenever it shall be considered necessary for any of the Assessmentsandprin- ciples on which game

purposes of this Act, a District Conncil may make an assessment of be made.

all rateable property within the district, such assessment to be made according to the principles following, that is to say:-As to m y building, and all land that may be occupied therewith, wherever Mode of a~~easments

situate, and all land situated outside the limits of any township,

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years; and as to all township land imbuilt upon, according to a percentage of five per cent. on the value of the freehold; and as to any area of land within any township comprising a block of not less than twenty acres, not divided by roads, and unused or used only for pastoral or agricultural purposes, according to a percentage of two and a half per cent. on the valuc of the freehold; and in the construction of this section the word " township " shall mean and include any Government township, and any land laid out as a town- ship, and plans whereof shall be deposited in the Lands Titles Registration Office, or in the General Registry Office for the said province; and every such assessment as aforesaid shall specify the names of the several occupiers and owners of'the property assessed (so far as known), and the description of the property assessed, and the same shall be entered in a book, to be called the Assessment Book, which may be in the form in the Schedule11 to The District Councils Act, 187 6," and three copies thereof shall be made and shall

be deposited at different convenient places within thc district.

Nutice of ssmsmcnt. 4. In addition to the notice providcd for by section 123 of The

District Councils Act, 1876," and in lien of the notice providcd for in section 124, witten notice shall be given of the making of every assessment, unless the assessment of the previous year be adoptcd, and of cvery alteration therein, b y delivering or posting the same, within ten days after thc making thereof, to evcry person appearing in the assessment-hook as the occupiers of the rateablc property concerned, or, in casc no person shall appear therein as occupier, then to every person appearing therein as owner of such property; but if no person appear therein as owner or occupier, then such written notice shall be unnecessary, and notice by adver-

tisment in the Government Gaz~t te shall bc sufficient.

Time OE apped. 5. Section l 28 of the said The District Councils Act, 1876," shall '

be read as if the words, " after thc giving of notice of assessment

or alteration thereof as hereby provided," were inserted in lieu of	the words L C after the publication of the notice of' assessment in the
G o u e w m e ~ i t Gazette, or the giving of the notice of alteration of assessment, as the case may be."

Amount expcndcd on 6, 'CVhenever any lands, tenements, or hereditarnents vested in or

lands ve~tcd in new

Dietrict Council to be held upon trust for n District Council shall, under section G5 of The

repaidJy them to old District Councils, Act, 1876," bccome vested in a Council of any Council. incorporated town, or in another District Council, thc Council or

District Council in which such lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall become vested, shall forthwith rcpay to the District Gounoil in which such lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall have been previously situate, such portion of the moneys paid out of rates by such last-mentioned District Council in respect of such lands, tenements, or hereditaments as may be agreed upon, or in the event of any dispute as to the amount payable, such sum as the Com- missioner of Crown Lands map decm fair and equitable; and such

moneys

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moneys may be recovered in any Court of competent jurisdiction as

money payable to such lastmentioned Council for money paid by

such Council to the use of the Council or District Council in which

such lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall have become vested.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, 1 hereby assent to

this Bill,

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor,

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Adelaide : By authority, E, BPILLEH, Oov~rnment Printer, North-tarn~.