Water Rates Act 1963 (ACT)

1963. Water Rates. No. 15. 663

WATER RATES.

No. 15 of 1963.

An Ordinance to amend the Water Rates Ordinance

1959.

1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Water Rates short two

Ordinance 1963.* and citation.

(2.) The Water Rates Ordinance 1959f is in this Ordinance

referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3 . ) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordi-

nance, may be cited as the Water Rates Ordinance 1959-1963.

2. Section eighteen of the Principal Ordinance is amended Additional

by omitting paragraph (b) and inserting in its stead the following meter readmg'-

paragraph:—

"(b) upon a request from the owner, lessee, mortgagee or purchaser of a parcel of land, or any other person who satisfies the proper authority that he has adequate reason for so requiring and upon payment of a fee of Ten shillings; and ".

3. After section twenty of the Principal Ordinance the

following sections are inserted:—

" 2 0 A . Where, in pursuance of paragraph (b) of section Rates

eighteen of this Ordinance, a meter is read, the proper authority {^—ter^T" any) that is payable in respect of that quantity of water.

may, if the person so requests, issue a certificate showing the
quantity of water shown to have been supplied (if any) through
the meter since the last occasion on which the meter was read,
or which he has estimated under section nineteen of this

+ Ordinance No. 19 1959.

" 2 0 B . The proper authority may upon the request of the Rates

owner, lessee, mortgagee or purchaser of a parcel of land referred faenaifie1?nerwIler•

to in section eight or nine of this Ordinance, or any other person unmetered or n o t connected

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who satisfies the proper authority that he has adequate reason £0sr£8stem of
for so requiring, and upon payment of a fee of Ten shillings
issue a certificate showing the amount of rates (if any) that is
payable in respect of that quantity of water or of that parcel of

land, as the case may be.".

4. After section twenty-six of the Principal Ordinance the

following section is inserted:—

" 2 6 A . — ( 1 . ) The person who is— & » L „ .

(a) the person in whom the fee simple of a parcel of pa-ym̂ °t"1fn

land is, for the time being, vested; or rate? under

l 5_ - section 12 ot

* Made on 25th June, 1963; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette and commenced on 28th i:,,*J?„Hi„„

June, 1963. ouistanomg.

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(b) the lessee, for the time being, of a parcel of land held under a lease from the Commonwealth for a period of years,

is liable to pay to the Commonwealth the whole or any part of the amount of rates payable in respect of water to be supplied or supplied to the parcel of land that has not been paid by the person who is liable, under section twelve or thirteen of this Ordinance, for the payment of these rates.

" (2.) Where, in pursuance of the last preceding sub-section, a person pays to the Commonwealth the whole or any part of the amount of rates that were originally payable by another person, the first-mentioned person may, subject to any agree- ment between him and that other person, recover the amount so paid as a debt due and payable by that other person.".

5. Section thirty of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is inserted in its stead:—

" 30.—(1.) The Secretary to the Department of the Interior, or a person authorized in writing by him may, by writing under his hand, certify that—

(a) a specified parcel of land is—

(i) a parcel of land for the supply of water to which a system of works has been constructed;

(ii) a parcel of land for the supply of water otherwise than through a system of works; or

(iii) a parcel of land for the supply of water

to which a system of works has been

constructed but which is not connected

to that system of works,

as the case may be;

{b) the amount of rates specified in the certificate is

payable in respect of that parcel of land;

(c) the person named in the certificate is the person by whom the amount of rates so specified is payable;

(d) a notice charging the person named in the certificate with the payment of those rates was posted or issued to that person on a specified date; and

(e) on the date of the certificate, the amount of rates so specified in the notice or portion of that amount has not been paid.

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" (2.) Unless the contrary is proved, a certificate purporting

to have been given under this section is, in all courts—

(a) evidence of the facts stated in the certificate; and
(b) evidence that a notice charging a person with the

payment of rates was received by that person on or about the time at which it would have been received in the ordinary course of post.

" (3.) Unless the contrary is proved—

(a) a certificate purporting to have been given under this section shall, in all courts, be deemed to have been given by the person purporting to give the certificate; and

(b) where such a certificate purports to be given by a person authorized in writing by the Secretary to the Department of the Interior, that person shall be deemed to have been so authorized.".