Electricity and Water (Amendment) Act (No 2) 1992 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Electricity and Water (Amendment)

Act (No. 2) 1992

No. 21 of 1992

An Act to amend the Electricity and Water Act 1988

[Notified in ACT Gazette S67: 2 June 1992]

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 (No. 2) 1992.

Principal Act

2.  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, “Principal Act” means the Electricity and Water Act 1988 .1

Commencement

3.  (1)  Sections 1 and 2 and this section commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.

(2)  The remaining provisions commence on a day, or respective days, fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

(3)  If a provision referred to in subsection (2) has not commenced before the end of the period of 6 months commencing on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette, that provision, by force of this subsection, commences on the first day after the end of that period.

Insertion

4.  After section 3 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Part I:

Position of Crown

"3A.The following provisions bind the Crown, namely, sections 50 and 51, Parts VIII and VIIIA and sections 75, 76 and 77.".

Repeal

5.  Section 61 of the Principal Act is repealed.

Exempt treatments

6.  Section 74D of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting from paragraph (a) "or purifying" and substituting ", purifying or otherwise treating";

(b)by omitting paragraph (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

"(b)fluoride at a concentration not exceeding 1.0 milligram per litre."; and

(c)by adding at the end the following subsection:

"(2)       For the purposes of paragraph (1) (b), a concentration that—

(a)would result in an average concentration of 1.0 milligram per litre during a period of 24 hours; and

(b)does not exceed 1.2 milligrams per litre;

shall be taken to be a concentration of 1.0 milligram per litre.".

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note

1. Ordinance No. 30, 1988 as amended by Nos. 57 and 88, 1988; Nos. 21, 28, 36 and 38, 1989; Act No. 13, 1989; Nos. 25, 58 and 60, 1990; Nos. 31, 48, and 118, 1991; No. 8, 1992.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on  8 April 1992]

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