Sewerage Rates (Amendment) Act 1983 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY 83

Sewerage Rates (Amendment) Ordinance

1983

No. 26 of 1983

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 15 September 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

TOM UREN

Minister of State for Territories

and Local Government

An Ordinance to amend the Sewerage Rates Ordinance 1968

Short title

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

Ordinance 1983.'

(a)	by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of "sewerage rates"; and
(b)	by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:
"(lA) In a provision of this Ordinance, a reference to sewerage rates shall be read as a reference to the charge determined by the
Minister under section 28A for the purposes of that provision.".

Principal Ordinance

Ordinance! 968.2 2. In this Ordinance, "Principal Ordinance" means the Sewerage Rates

Interpretation

3. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

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Amount of rates imposed

4. Section 8 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)	by omitting from sub-section (1) all words after "parcel" (third occurring) and substituting "is the amount of the charge determined in relation to the relevant class of parcel of rateable land."; and
(b)	by omitting from sub-section (2) "an amount of $137" and substituting "the amount of the determined charge".

Amount of rates for part of rating year

5. Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) "that would be imposed by section 8 of this Ordinance" and substituting "determined under section 28A".

Increased sewerage rates—residential units owned by the Commonwealth

6. Section 12 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) "$137" and substituting "the amount of the determined charge".

Refund of sewerage rates

7. Section 13 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (4) "that would be imposed by section 8 of this Ordinance" and substituting "determined under section 28A".

Persons by whom sewerage rates are payable

8. Section 14 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) "by virtue of a section of this Ordinance".

9. After section 28 of the Principal Ordinance the following section is

inserted:

Power of Minister to determine charges

"28A. (1) The Minister may, by notice in writing published in the Gazette,

determine charges for the purposes of this Ordinance.

charge determined applies in respect of the rating year that commenced on "(2) While a determination under sub-section (1) remains in force, the

1 July immediately preceding the date of the relevant notice referred to in that

sub-section and each subsequent rating year.".

NOTES

1.    Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 22 September 1983.

2.    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; Nos. 18,30and35, 1980; No. 28, 1981; Nos. 75, 76 and 97,1982; Act No. 74, 1981.