Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act Amendment Act 1978 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

METROPOLITAN WATER

SUPPLY, SEWERAGE, AND

DRAINAGE.

No. 19 of 1978.

AN ACT to amend the Metropolitan Water Supply,

Sewerage, and Drainage Act, 1909-1977.

[Assented to 18th May, 1978.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan t title

Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act and citation.	and citation.
Amendment Act, 1978.

(2) In this Act the Metropolitan Water Supply, Reprinted as

Sewerage, and Drainage Act, 1909-1977, is referred

approved forreprint

to as the principal Act.

21/11//969as amended

by Acts Noe.

11 of 1970.

98 of 1970.

43 of 1972,

94 of 1972,

24 of 1975,

83 of 1976

and 59 of

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act, 1909-1978.

Section 90

amended. 2. Section 90 of the principal Act is amended

(a)	as to subsection (1), by inserting immediately before the word "make", in line two of that subsection, the passage "except where the provisions of subsection (4) of this section apply" ; and
(b)	by adding a further subsection as follows

(4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act the Board may and if the Minister so directs shall, in respect of rateable land used for residential purposes, refrain from making and levying a water rate in the manner provided for elsewhere in this Act and instead impose a water rate for the year, and prescribe the quantity of water which the owner or occupier of land so rated shall be entitled to receive by way of allowance (if any) in respect of that rate and the price to be payable by measure in respect of other water supplied, in accordance with such one of the Tables hereinafter specified as the Minister, by notice published in the Government Gazette prior to the com- mencement of the year in which that Table is to apply, directs

Table A.

A water rate by way of a prescribed standard charge unrelated to the rateable value of the land, together with a prescribed standard allowance of water in respect of that rate and a standard price for water supplied by measure in excess of that allowance.

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Table B.

A water rate by way of a prescribed standard charge determined by reference to the rateable value of the land in not more than three graduated increments, together with a prescribed standard allowance of water in respect of that rate commen- surate with the charge determined and a standard price for water supplied by measure in excess of that allowance.

Table C.

A water rate by way of a prescribed standard charge determined by reference to the rateable value of the land in not more than three graduated increments, but with no allowance of water in respect of that rate and a price for water supplied graduated by reference to the quantity measured.

Table D.

A water rate by way of a prescribed minimum standard charge and a further prescribed charge determined by reference to the rateable value of the land over a prescribed minimum graduated proportionally to the rateable value by prescribed incre- ments, but with no allowance of water in respect of that rate and a price for water supplied graduated by reference to the quantity measured. .

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Section 146

amended. 3. Subsection (1) of section 146 of the principal Act is amended, as to paragraph (12), by adding after the word "value", in line four of that para- graph, the passage ", or prescribing a charge by way of water rate in respect of any rateable land used for residential purposes pursuant to subsection (4) of section ninety of this Act".