Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Amendment Act 1980 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

METROPOLITAN WATER

SUPPLY, SEWERAGE,

AND DRAINAGE.

No. 3 of 1980.

AN ACT to amend section 94 of the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act 1909-1979.

[Assented to 25 August 1980.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, 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	Short title
and citation.

Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Amendment

Act 1980.

(2) In this Act the Metropolitan Water Supply,	Reprinted as
approved 13

Sewerage, and Drainage Act 1909-1979 is referred

December

1977 and

amended by

to as the principal Act.

Acts Nos.

19, 76 and

105 of 1978,

and 3, 42

and 109 of

No. 31 Metropolitan Water Supply, [1980.

Sewerage, and Drainage.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act 1909-1980.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a day

to be fixed by proclamation.

Section 94	3.	Section 94 of the principal Act is amended by
amended.

inserting after subsection (3) the following

subsections-

" (4) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, a person shall not be liable to pay any amount by way of water rate, sewerage rate, or metropolitan main drainage rate levied on any separately assessed piece of rateable land in respect of the period of twelve months commencing on 1 July 1980 in so far as that amount

(a) exceeds the minimum rate;

(b)	is calculated on the basis of the value of the land rated; and
(c)	is more than one-half as much again as the amount payable on the like basis in respect of the rate applicable to the immediately preceding period of twelve months,

and for the purposes of this subsection the assessment of rates payable on that land for that period shall be deemed to have been amended accordingly.

(5) Subsection (4) of this section does not

(a)	apply to or in relation to any rate in so far as the increase in the amount payable was occasioned after 30 June 1979 by reason of a change in the use of the land, the operation of section 96 of this Act, or the provision of new or additional services to the land under this Act; or
(b)	affect the operation of section 97A of this Act. "