Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act Amendment Act 1941 (WA)

METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY,

SEWERAGE, AND DRAINAGE.

5° Gno. VI., No. II.

No. 2 of 1941.

AN ACT to make provision in the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act, 1909, for a power to amend in the course of a year the annual value of rateable land and to make any conse- quential adjustments in the amount of the rates payable in respect of such land.

[Assented to 25th September, 1941.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act Amendment Act,

1941.] Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, [No. 2.

and Drainage.

1941, and shall be read as one with the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act, 1909 (No. 43 of 1909), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Amendment

Section eighty-one of the principal Act is amended by inserting therein after the word "subject" in line three of the section the words "to section ninety-seven A of this Act and."	of s. 81.
Amendment

2.

Section ninety-five of the principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (2) thereof after the word "subject" in line two of the said subsection the words "to section ninety-seven A of this Act and." of s. 95.

3.

A new section is inserted in the principal Act after section ninety-seven as follows :—	New section.
Power to

4.

97A. (1) Where the net annual value of any rate- able land has been assessed in respect of any year and	amend valua- tion and ad-
just rates in
during the currency of that year it appears to the	certain cases.
Minister that by reason of any improvements made to or erected upon such land the amount of the annual value has become greater than the amount of the annual value then assessed, or that by reason of the destruction, damage, or demolition of improvements previously made and standing upon the said land the amount of the annual value has become less than the amount of the annual value then assessed, the Minister may cause the annual value to be reassessed for and in respect of the then unexpired portion of such year, and amend and adjust, either by increase or reduction, as the ease may require, the amount of the rates payable upon the said land to the extent by which such reassess- ment of the annual value justifies the making of such amendment or adjustment as aforesaid.
(2) –The reassessment of the annual value of any rateable land under subsection (1) of this section shall be an amendment of the annual value of the land within the meaning and for the purposes of section eighty-five of this Act.
Citation of
5.

The principal Act as amended by the Act No. 30 of 1925 and by this Act may be cited as the Metropolitan	principal Act
as amended.
Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act, 1909-1941.