Water Rates Act 1972 (ACT)

No. 24 of 1972

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Water Rates Ordinance 1959-1970.

I THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government 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 1910-1972.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of July, 1972.

ROHAN DELACOMBE

Administrator.

By His Excellency's Command,

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for the Interior.

WATER RATES ORDINANCE 1972

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

1972.*

(2.) The Water Rates Ordinance 1959-1970f is in this Ordinance

referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

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

be cited as the Water Rates Ordinance 1959-1972.

2. The Principal Ordinance is amended as set out in the following

table:—

Provision amended Omit— Insert—

Section 6 (1.) (a)	. .	Twenty dollars	Twenty-two dollars fifty cents
Section 6 (1.) (A)	. .	Twenty dollars	Twenty-two dollars fifty cents
Section 6 (1.) (b) (i)	Twenty-five cents	Thirty cents

1969; and N o . 49, 1970.

Section 6 (1.) (6) (ii) . . . . Twelve and one-half cents Fifteen cents

Section 6 (2.)	. .	. .	Twenty dollars	Twenty-two dollars fifty cents
Section 6 (3.)	. .	. .	Twenty dollars	Twenty-two dollars fifty cents
Section 7	. .	Twenty dollars	Twenty-two dollars fifty cents
Section 7A (1.) (a)	Twenty dollars for	Twenty-two dollars fifty cents

for

Twenty dollars in Twenty-two dollars fifty cents

in

Section 7A (1.) (b) .. Twenty-five cents Thirty cents

Section 7A (2.)	. .	. .	Twenty dollars	Twenty-two dollars fifty cents
Section 8	. .	. .	Twenty dollars	Twenty-two dollars fifty cents
Section 14 (1.) (c) (i) . .	. .	Twenty dollars	Twenty-two dollars fifty cents
Section 14 (1.) (c) (ii)	. .	Twenty-five cents	Thirty cents
Section 22 (1.) (a)	. .	. .	Twenty dollars	Twenty-two dollars fifty cents
Section 22 (1.) (b)	..	Twenty-five cents	Thirty cents
Section 22 (2.)	. .	Twenty dollars, the	Twenty-two dollars fifty cents,

the

Twenty dollars Twenty-two dollars fifty cents

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 3 August 1972.
t Ordinance N o . 19, 1959; as amended by N o . 15, 1963; N o . 18, 1965; N o . 19, 1966; N o . 26, 1967; N o . 23,

3.—(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 first meter reading year that commenced or commences on or after the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two, and in subsequent meter reading years; and

(b) in relation t o—

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

(ii)   a parcel of land to which water is supplied from a system of works otherwise than through a meter,

in the rating year that commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two, and in subsequent rating years.

(2.) Where a parcel of land on which a building containing residen­ tial flats is erected and to which water is supplied through a system of works is sub-divided into units and common property under the Unit Titles Ordinance 1970-1971, the Principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance, in so far as it applies in relation to a parcel of land to which water is supplied through a meter, applies to and in relation to the parcel of land in the meter reading year commencing next after the sub-division.

(3.) 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 Principal Ordinance as so amended.