Sewerage Rates (Amendment) Act 1980 (ACT)

No. 18 of 1980

An Ordinance to amend the Sewerage Rates Ordinance 1968

I, T H E G O V E R N O R - G E N E R A L 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 thirtieth day of June 1980.

Z E L M A N C O W E N

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

R. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for the Capital Territory

S E W E R A G E RATES ( A M E N D M E N T ) O R D I N A N C E 1980

Short title

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

Ordinance 1980.1

Principal Ordinance

2. In this Ordinance, "Principal Ordinance" means the Sewerage	Rates
Ordinance	1968. 2

Interpretation

sub-paragraph: 

3. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by inserting after the

definition of "lease" in sub-section (1) the following definition:

" 'prescribed building' means a building containing 2 residential units of

which one unit is a dwelling-house and the other unit is a flat;".

Classes of rateable land

4. Section 6 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by inserting after sub-paragraph (1) (a) (i) the following sub-paragraph:

"(ia) if a prescribed building, and no other building, is erected on

the land and sewerage services are supplied to the building;";

(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (1) (a) (ii) "or" (last occurring);

(c ) by insert ing after sub-paragraph ( l ) ( a ) ( i i ) the following

"(iia) if 2 or more buildings are erected on the land of which one building is a prescribed building and the other building is a subsidiary building, or the other buildings are subsidiary buildings, and sewerage services are supplied to any of those buildings; or";

(d) by omitting from paragraph ( l ) ( b ) "Unit Titles Ordinance

1970-1971" and substituting "Unit Titles Ordinance 1970 or a parcel of land which is a parcel of rateable land of a kind referred to in para­ graph (a)" ; and

(e) by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) "Australia" and substituting "the Commonwealth".

Increased sewerage rates—general

5. Section 11 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)	by inserting in paragraph (1) (e) ", not being a prescribed building," after "units"; and
(b)	by inserting in paragraph (1) (h) ", not being a prescribed building" after "the building is converted into a building containing residential units".

Persons by whom sewerage rates are payable

6. Section 14 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by inserting in sub­

section ( 3 ) " , not being a prescribed building," after "units".

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 8 July 1980.

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; No. 27, 1978; No. 27,1979.