Water Rates (Amendment) Act 1979 (ACT)

N o . 28 of 1979

An Ordinance to amend the Water Rates Ordinance 1959

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 this eleventh day of September 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

R. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for the Capital Territory

WATER RATES ( A M E N D M E N T ) ORDINANCE 1979

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

Ordinance 1979.'

Ordinance 1959.2 2. In this Ordinance, "Principal Ordinance" means the Water Rates

3. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by inserting after sub-section (1 A) the following sub-section:

(b)	by omitting from sub-section (2) "Each of the amounts referred to in paragraph (1) ( a ) " and substituting "The amount cal­
culated in accordance with paragraph (1) ( a ) " .

" ( I B ) Where a parcel of land is sub-divided under the Unit Titles Ordinance 1970, the land comprising the parcel shall, notwithstanding the sub-division, be taken, for the purposes of this Ordinance, to con­ tinue to comprise the one parcel of land.".

4. Section 7A of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (1) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:

" ( a ) is an amount of $74.00 for each unit into which the
parcel has been sub-divided; and" ; and

5. Section 12 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting sub-sections (2A) and (2B) and substituting the following sub-section:

" ( 2 A ) The rates imposed by section 7 A are payable in accordance with the following requirements:

( a ) a part of those rates equal to the amount specified in paragraph

7A (1) ( a ) is payable in respect of each unit by the person who,

at the commencement of the rating year, is the lessee of that unit; and
(b)	that part (if any) of those rates that is an amount calculated in accordance with paragraph 7A (1) (b) is payable by the corpor­ ation that is the registered proprietor of the lease of the common property.".

6. Section 24A of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (4) (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

" ( b ) a lessee of a unit for the purposes of the Unit Titles Or­
dinance 1970, being a person—

(i)   the lease of whose unit provides that the unit is to be used for residential purposes only; and

(ii)   to whom a notice under section 24 has been given.";

(b )	by omitting from sub-section (6) "paragraph (4) ( b ) " and sub­ stituting ' ' paragraph (5) ( b ) " ; and
(c)	by omitting sub-section (8) and substituting the following sub-section:

" ( 8 ) A reference in this section to rates does not include a ref­

erence to an amount of rates imposed in a rating year that be­ comes due at the end of a meter reading period that ends in the rating year, being an amount that is calculated by reference to the quantity of water in excess of a prescribed quantity supplied

to a parcel of land in the meter reading period.".

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

table:

Provision Amendment

Paragraph 6 ( 1 ) (a) . . . . Omit"$61.00", substitute"$74.00".

P a r a g r a p h 6 ( l ) ( b )	.	.	.	.	Omit "$61.00", substitute "$74.00".
Sub-section 6 (2 )	Omit"$61.00", substitute "$74.00".
Sub-section 6 (3)	Omit"$61.00", substitute "$74.00".
Section 7	Omit "$61.00", substitute "$74.00".

Paragraph 7 B ( l ) ( a )	.	.	.	Omit"$61.00", substitute"$74.00".
Paragraph 7 B ( l ) ( b )	.	.	.	Omit"$61.00", substitute"$74.00".

Sub-section 7B (2 )	. . . .	Omit"$61.00", substitute"$74.00".
Sub-section 7B (3 )	. . . .	Omit "$61.00", substitute "$74.00".
Section 8	Omit"$61.00",substitute"$74.00".
Sub-paragraph	1 4 ( l ) ( c ) ( i )	Omit"$61.00",substitute"$74.00".

8. (1) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance, applies to and in relation to rates imposed in respect of the rating year that commenced on 1 July 1979 and each subsequent rating year.

(2) The Principal Ordinance, as in force immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance, continues to apply to and in relation to rates imposed in respect of a rating year that commenced before 1 July 1979.

(3) An expression in this section that is denned in the Principal Ordi­ nance has the same meaning for the purposes of this section as it has in the Principal Ordinance.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 September 1979.

2.    Ordinance No. 19, 1959 as amended by No. 15, 1963; No. 18, 1965; No. 19, 1966; No. 26, 1967; No. 23, 1969; No. 49, 1970; No. 24, 1972; Nos. 15 and 26, 1973; No. 31, 1974; No. 20, 1975; Nos. 20 and 34, 1976; Nos. 8 and 45, 1977; and Nos. 28 and 46,1978.