Metropolitan Water, Sewerage, and Drainage (Rates) Amendment Act 1979 (NSW)

M E T R O P O L I T A N W A T E R , S E W E R A G E , A N D

D R A I N A G E (RATES) A M E N D M E N T A C T , 1979 , N o . 25

A N N O V I C E S I M O O C T A V O

ELIZABETHE II REGINE

Act N o . 2 5 , 1979 .

An Act to amend the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage, and Drainage Act, 1924, so as to remove certain limits imposed on the power of The Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board to levy water, sewerage and drainage rates. [Assented to, 24th April, 1979.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1. This Act may be cited as the "Metropolitan Water,

Sewerage, and Drainage (Rates) Amendment Act, 1979".

2. The Metropolitan Water, Sewerage, and Drainage Act,

1924, is amended—

(a) by omitting section 95 ( 1 ) , ( 2 ) , (2A) and ( 4 ) ;

(b) (i) by omitting from section 96 (2) the words "For
the purpose of securing compliance with the

provisions of this Act as to the limitation of rates

the" and by inserting instead the word "The";

(ii) by omitting section 96 ( 3 ) ;

(iii)   by inserting after section 96 (7) the following subsection :—

(7A) In levying any water rates, sewerage rates or drainage rates in any district, it shall be lawful for the board to levy a special rate, in addition to the ordinary rate, if the provision of the water, sewerage or drainage service, as the case may be, in that district at the ordinary rate, either on

account of the remoteness of the district or the high cost involved in the provision of the service, would occasion a loss to the board.