The Water Conservation Amendment Act 1900 (SA)

ANNO SEXAGESIMO TERl'IO ET SEXAGESIMO

QUARTO

A. D. 1900.

No. 736.

An Act to amend the Water Conservation Acts.

[Assented to, December 5th, r 900.1

E i t Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of

the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

1, This Act may be cited as " Thc Water ('onservation Amend- short title.

ment Act, 19C)O." and shall be incorporated with " The Water Con- servation Act, 1886," and the Acts incorporated therewith, hereinafter referred to as the Water Conservation Acts.

2, 'L'hc whole of Act No. S05 of 1891, section 146 of Act No. Repal-

392 of 1886, and section 16 of Act No. 463 of 1889, are hereby

repealed.

3, Every advance or loan under the Water Conservation Acts to Interest on loans.

a Board shall be applied by the Board to the purpose for which the same was made, and slut11 be a debt due from such Board to the Commissioner, and shall bear interest at such rate not exceeding Four Pounds per centum per annum as the Commissioner may fix. All interest accruing on any such advance or lmn up to the time when the Board shall have power to levy rates within its district in respect of any particular waterworks shall be capitaliscd and added to the advance or loan in respect of which such interest has accrued, and shall be deemed to be part thereof, and interest shall there- after be payable half-yearly in advance on such advance or loan.

4, The provisions of the prvceding section shall, so far as a p p L AppEcation to past

cable, apply to loans or advances heretofore made. loane.

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~ a x i m u m of rates. 5. The maximum amount of any rate declared under section 106

of 'c The Water Conservation Act, 1886," for any onc year may exceed Two 3hillings in the Pound on the assesed annual value of any property, but shall not exceed Two Shillings and Sixpence in the Pound: Provided always that, in the case of any ratable tenement the assessed annual value of which does not exceed Ten Pounds, the Board may declare a minimum annual rate of One Pound sterling.

Meaning of word 6. I n the construction of the Water Conservation Acts the word

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rate," unless some other meaning is clearly intended, shall include every meter rent, fee, or other charge payable, and every reward or payment to be made, whether under agreement or otherwise, to the Commissioner or the Board for a supply of water from any water- works, or for any purpose whatever.

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to be depoeited. It shall be sufficient if one copy of every assessment made by the Board shall be deposited for inspection in some convenient lace within the district appointed by th; ~ o a r d, instead of' three cop& as required by section 91 of " The Water Conservation Act, 1886."

111 the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to

this Bill.

'I'ENNYSON, Governor.

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Adhide: By authority, C. E. B~LIBTOW, Oovenunent Printer, North Telraow.