Water Rates Act 1965 (ACT)

236 No. 18 Water Rates 1965

WATER RATES

No. 18 of 1965

An Ordinance to amend the Water Rates Ordinance

1959-1963.

Short title and	1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Water Rates Ordinance 1965.*
(2.) The Water Rates Ordinance 1959-1963f 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 1959-1965.
Interpretation.	2. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting the definition of " lease for rural purposes " from sub-
section (1.) .
Rates for

citation.

metered land	3. Section 6 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
on which flats
are not erected.	(a) by omitting sub-section (1.) and inserting in its

stead the following sub-section:—
" (1.) Where water is supplied from a system of works through a meter to a parcel of land, not being a parcel of land on which a building con- taining residential flats is erected, the amount of rates in respect of the water supplied to the parcel of land in a meter reading year is—

(a) if the total quantity of water so supplied does not exceed seventy-five thousand gallons—an amount of Five pounds; or

t Ordinance No. 19 of 1959, as amended by No. 15 of 1963.

(b) if the total quantity of water so sup- plied exceeds seventy-five thousand gallons—the sum of an amount of Five pounds and an amount calcu- lated at the rate of Two shillings for each one thousand gallons of water so supplied in excess of seventy-five thousand gallons."; and

(b) by inserting in sub-section (3.), after the words
" specified in ", the words " paragraph (b) of ".

* Made on the 18 November, 1965; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette and commenced on 25 November, 1965.

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4. Section 9 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by Rates where

omitting the words " One pound " and inserting in their stead connected to i	constructed
the words " Two pounds "	system of works.

5. Sections 10 and 11 of the Principal Ordinance are Repeal of

repealed, and 11.

6. Section 12 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by Persons by

omitting from sub-section (1.) the words " , eight or ten " and ^e^/aw!. lg from sub-section (1.) the words "

inserting in their stead the words " or eight'

omitting the words ", or sub-section (3.) of section ten, as the S?Lnn6der	7. Section 13 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by Payment of
case may be,".	on^s^T86

8. Section 14 of the Principal Ordinance is amended-	Proportionate liability for
(a) by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-section (1.) and	metered land
for part of the

inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—	meter reading
year.
"(c) the amount of rates payable in respect of

each of those different periods is—

(i) if the total quantity of water so supplied in that meter read- ing year does not exceed seventy-five thousand gallons —an amount that bears the same proportion to the amount of Five pounds as the number of days in the period beais to three hun- dred and sixty-five; or

(ii) if the total quantity of water so

supplied in that meter read-

ing year exceeds seventy-five thousand gallons—the sum of an amount calculated as provided by the last preced- ing sub-paragraph and an amount calculated at the rate of Two shillings for each one thousand gallons of the quantity of water that bears the same proportion to the amount of that excess as the number of days in that period bears to three hundred and sixty-five."; and

(b) by omitting sub-section (2.) .

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9. Section 22 of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

Reduction of

rates in meter	"22.—(1.) Notwithstanding sub-section (1.) of section six water supplied through a meter to a parcel of land, not being a parcel of land on which a building containing residential flats is erected, in a meter reading year that ended on the date on which the meter was read in pursuance of a direction under sub-section (3.) of section seventeen of this Ordinance, is the sum of—
reading year
after short	of this Ordinance, the amount of rates payable in respect of
meter reading
period.

(a) an amount that bears the same proportion to the amount of Five pounds as the number of days in the period bears to three hundred and sixty-five; and

(6) an amount, if any, calculated at the rate of Two shillings for each one thousand gallons of water in excess of the quantity of water that bears the same proportion to seventy-five thousand gallons as the number of days in the period bears to three hundred and sixty-five.

"(2.) Where the amount payable under the last preceding sub-section is less than Five pounds, the amount of rates payable under sub-section (2.) of section six of this Ordinance at the commencement of the meter reading year next after the meter reading year referred to in the last preceding sub-section shall be reduced by the amount by which the amount payable under the last preceding sub-section is less than Five pounds.".

Special accounts 10. Section 25 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

for rates. (a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words "one

hundred thousand gallons " (wherever occurring)

and inserting in their stead the words " seventy-

five thousand gallons "; and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (3.) the words ", or

sub-section (3.) of section ten,".

Application. 11.—(1.) The Principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance applies—

(a) in relation to a parcel of land to which water is supplied through a meter, not being a parcel of land on which a building containing residential flats is erected, in the meter reading year com- mencing next after the commencement of this Ordinance, and in subsequent meter reading years; and

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(b) in relation to—

(i) a parcel of land on which a building con- taining residential flats is erected to which water is supplied from a system of works;

(ii) a parcel of land to which water is sup- plied from a system of works other- wise than through a meter; and

(iii) a parcel of land that is not connected to a system of works that has been con- structed for the supply of water to that land,

in the rating year that commences on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six, and in subsequent rating years.

(2.) An expression in this section that is defined in the Principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance has the same meaning for the purposes of this section as it has in the Prin- cipal Ordinance as so amended.