Water Rates (Amendment) Act 1991 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Water Rates (Amendment) Act 1991

No. 49 of 1991

An Act to amend the Water Rates Act 1959

[Notified in ACT Gazette S97: 30 September 1991]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Water Rates (Amendment ) Act 1991.

Commencement

2.  This Act commences on the day on which the Electricity and Water (Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1991 commences.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Water Rates Act 1959.1

Interpretation

4.  Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (1) the following definition:

“ ‘basic water allowance’ has the same meaning as in the Electricity and Water Act;”.

Rates—one residential unit, house with flat and schools etc.

5.  Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraphs (4) (a) and (b) “455 kilolitres” and substituting “the basic water allowance”.

Rates—land sub-divided into units and common property

6.  Section 7A of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraphs (4) (a) and (b) “455 kilolitres” and substituting “the basic water allowance”.

Rates for metered land held by University of Canberra

7.  Section 7B of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraphs (4) (a) and (b) “455 kilolitres” and substituting “the basic water allowance”.

Rates for metered land held by Australian National University

8.  Section 7C of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraphs (4) (a) and (b) “455 kilolitres” and substituting “the basic water allowance”.

Proportionate liability for rates for metered land for part of rating year where there is a change in monthly etc. tenancy

9.  Section 14 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subparagraph (1) (c) (ii) “455 kilolitres” and substituting “the basic water allowance”.

Special accounts for rates

10.  Section 25 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “four hundred and fifty-five kilolitres” (wherever occurring) and substituting “the basic water allowance”.

Power of Minister to determine fees and charges

11.  Section 33A of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting from subsection (2) “section 48” and substituting “subsection 48 (1)”;

(b)by omitting paragraph (2) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(a)the rating year specified in the determination and each subsequent rating year; or”; and

(c)by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “the date of the relevant notice referred to in that subsection” and substituting “the commencement of the rating year specified in the determination”.

note

1. 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; Nos. 28 and 46, 1978; No. 28, 1979; Nos. 19, 27 and 36, 1980; No. 27, 1981; Nos. 25, 67, 77 and 98, 1982; No. 36, 1983; No. 31, 1984; No. 31, 1988; Nos. 21 and 38, 1989; Act No. 12, 1989; Commonwealth Act No. 74, 1981.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 12 September 1991]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1991