Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Amendment Act 1981 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

METROPOLITAN WATER

SUPPLY, SEWERAGE,

AND DRAINAGE.

No. 41 of 1981.

AN ACT to amend the Metropolitan Water Supply,

Sewerage, and Drainage Act 1909-1930.

[Assented to 25 August 1981.1

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:-

Short title

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

Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Amendment

Act 1981.

and citation.

Reprinted as

(2)

In this Act the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act 1909-1980 is referred to

approved 13

December

1977 and

amended by

as the principal Act.

Acts Nos. 19, 76 and 105 of 1978, 3, 42

The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Water Supply,	and 109 of
1979 and 3 of
1980.
Sewerage, and Drainage Act 1909-1981.

(3)

No. 41.] Metropolitan Water Supply, [1981.

Sewerage, and Drainage.

Section 94

amended. 2. Section 94 of the principal Act is amended-

( a) in subsection (4)-

(i)   by deleting "1980" and substituting the following-

" 1981 " ; and

(ii)  by deleting paragraph (c) and substituting a paragraph as follows-

" (c) is more than one-half as

much again as-

(i) the amount payable on the like basis in respect of the rate applicable to the immediately preced- ing period of twelve months; or

where, by this sub- section as in force before the coming into operation of the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Amend- ment Act 1981, an assessment of rates payable on the land for the immediately preceding period of twelve months was deemed to have been amended, the amount of such amended assessment, " ;

(b) in subsection (5), by deleting paragraph (a) and substituting the following para- graph

" (a) apply to or in relation to any rate in so far as the increase in the amount payable was occasioned after 30 June 1980 by reason of a change in the use of the land, the operation of section

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Sewerage, and Drainage.

96 of this Act, the provision of new or additional services to the land under this Act, or an increase made under section 97A (2) of this Act in an assessment of rates; " ;

and

(c) by inserting after subsection (5) a subsection as follows

'C (6) Where an assessment of rates is

deemed by subsection (4) of this section to have been amended, the Board shall refund or credit any amount paid in respect of the rates that exceeds the amount of the amended assessment. " .

3. Section 94 (4) and (5) of the principal Act Savings.

as in force immediately before the coming into operation of this Act continue to apply to and in relation to rates payable in respect of the period of twelve months commencing on 1 July 1980.