Electricity and Water (Amendment) Act 1991 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Electricity and Water (Amendment) Act 1991

No. 31 of 1991

An Act to amend the Electricity and Water Act 1988

[Notified in ACT Gazette S83:  26 August 1991]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Electricity and Water (Amendment) Act 1991.

Principal Act

2.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Electricity and Water Act 1988.1

Interpretation

3.  Section 74A of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of “elector of the Territory”.

Repeal

4.  Section 74D of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:

Exempt treatments

“74D.  Section 74B does not apply in relation to the addition by the Authority to the water supply system of the Territory of—

(a)a chemical for the purpose of clarifying or purifying the water in that system at a concentration that would not be injurious to public health; or

(b)fluoride at a concentration not exceeding 0.5 of a milligram per litre.”.

Repeal

5.  Sections 74E and 74F of the Principal Act are repealed.

Transitional

6.  Section 74B of the Principal Act does not apply in relation to the addition by the Authority to the water supply system of the Territory of fluoride within the meaning of Part VIIIA of that Act at a concentration not exceeding 1 milligram per litre at any time during the period of 9 months after the commencement of this Act.

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NOTE

1. Ordinance Nos. 21 and 30, 1988 as amended by Nos. 57 and 88, 1988; Nos. 28, 36 and 38, 1989; Act No. 13, 1989; Nos. 25, 58 and 60, 1990.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 7 August 1991]

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