Sewerage Rates (Amendment) Act 1979 (ACT)

N o . 27 of 1979

An Ordinance to amend the Sewerage Rates Ordinance 1968

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated this eleventh day of September 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command.

R. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for the Capital Territory

SEWERAGE RATES ( A M E N D M E N T ) ORDINANCE 1979

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sewerage Rates (Amendment)

Ordinance 1979.'

2. In this Ordinance, "Principal Ordinance" means the Sewerage

Rales Ordinance 1968.-

3. Section 6 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting sub­

section ( 2 ) and substituting the following sub-sections:

(a)	a unit shall, if the lease of that unit provides that the unit shall be used for residential purposes only, be deemed, for the pur­ poses of this Ordinance, to be a Class 1 parcel of rateable land;
(b)	the common property shall, if the lease of each of the units pro­ vides that the unit is to be used for residential purposes only, at any time while it comprises, for the purposes of this Ordinance, a separate parcel of land, be deemed, for the purposes of this Or­ dinance, to be a Class 2 parcel of rateable land;
(c)	a unit shall, if the lease of the unit provides that the unit is to be used for a purpose other than residential purposes, be deemed, for the purposes of this Ordinance, to be a Class 5 parcel of rate­
able land;and

" ( 2 ) Where a parcel of land is sub-divided into units and common

property under the Unit Titles Ordinance 1970—

(d ) the common property shall, if the lease of any of the units pro­ vides that the unit is to be used for a purpose other than residen­ tial purposes, at any time while it comprises, for the purposes of this Ordinance, a separate parcel of land, be deemed, for the purposes of this Ordinance, to be a Class 5 parcel of rateable land.

" ( 3 ) For the purposes of this Ordinance, where a parcel of land is sub-divided into units and common property under the Unit Titles Ord­ inance 1970—

(a)	each unit shall be taken to comprise a separate parcel of land; and
(b)	the common property shall, at any time after the sub-division while sewerage services are supplied in respect thereof, be taken to comprise a separate parcel of land but shall not, at any other time, be taken to comprise such a parcel.".

4. Section 19A of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting

from paragraph ( 4 ) (b ) "paragraph 6 (2) ( b ) " and substituting "para­

graph 6 (2) ( a ) " .

5. The Principal Ordinance is amended as set out in the following

table:

Provision Amendment

Paragraph 8 ( 1 ) (a) . . . . Omit"$71.00", substitute"$87.00".

Paragraph 8 ( l ) ( b ) . . . . Omit"$71.00"(whereveroccurring),substitute"$87.00".

Paragraph 8 (1) (c)	. . . .	Omit "$71.00", substitute"$87.00".
Sub-paragraph 8 ( l ) ( d )	(i)	Omit"$71.00",substitute"$87.00".

Sub-paragraph 8 (1 ) (d) (ii)	(a) Omit "$71.00", substitute"$87.00". (b) Omit "$35.50", substitute "$43.50".
Sub-paragraph 8 (1) (e) (i)	(a) Omit "$71.00'' , substitute "$87.00".

(b) Omit"$67.00", substitute "$82.00".

Sub-paragraph 8 (1 ) (e ) (ii)	Omit"$71.00", substitute "$87.00".
Sub-paragraph 8 (1) ( e ) ( i i i )	(a) Omit"$71.00", substitute"$87.00". (b) Omit "$67.00 ", substitute "$82.00".
Sub-section 8 (2 )	Omit"$71.00",substitute"$87.00".

Sub-section 12 (2 ) . . . . Omit"$71.00",substitute"$87.00".

6. ( 1 ) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance, applies to and in relation to sewerage rates imposed in respect of the rating year that commenced on 1 July 1979 and each subsequent rating year.

(2) The Principal Ordinance, as in force immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance, continues to apply to and in relation to sewerage rates imposed in respect of a rating year that commenced before 1 July 1979.

(3) An expression in this section that is denned in the Principal Ordi­ nance has the same meaning for the purposes of this section as it has in the Principal Ordinance.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazetteon 18 September 1979.

2.   Ordinance No. 30, 1968 as amended by No. 22, 1969; No. 50, 1970; No. 25, 1972; No. 25, 1973; No. 30, 1974; No. 21, 1975; No. 35, 1976; Nos. 9, 43 and 46, 1977; and No. 27, 1978.