Water Rates (Amendment) Act (No 3) 1980 (ACT)

No. 36 of 1980

An Ordinance to amend the Water Rates Ordinance 1959

I, T H E G O V E R N O R - G E N E R A L 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 first day of October 1980.

Z E L M A N C O W E N

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 ) O R D I N A N C E (No. 3) 1980

Short title

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

inance (No. 3) 1980.1

Principal Ordinance

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

inance 1959.2

(a) is an amount of $74.00; or

Commencement

3. This Ordinance shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July

1980.

4. After section 7B of the Principal Ordinance the following section is

inserted:

Rates for metered land held under this Ordinance

" 7 C . (1) Where water is supplied from a system of works through a meter

to a parcel of land held by The Australian National University under a lease granted under, or continued in force by, the Australian National University

(Leases) Ordinance	1967, the amount of rates in respect of the parcel of land in
each rating year—

(b) where one or more meter reading periods end during that rating year and the quantity of water that has been supplied during such a meter reading period exceeds the prescribed quantity for that period—is the sum of the amount of $74.00 and an amount calculated at the rate of 9 cents for each kilolitre of water supplied in excess of the prescribed quantity for each meter reading period ending in that rating year.

"(2) An amount of $74.00 becomes due in respect of a parcel of land re­

ferred to in sub-section ( 1 ) at the commencement of the rating year.

"(3) Where, by virtue of sub-section ( 1 ) , the rates payable in respect of land in a rating year exceed $74.00, an amount calculated at the rate of 9 cents for each kilolitre of water in excess of the prescribed quantity supplied in a meter reading period that ends in the rating year becomes due at the end of the meter reading period.

"(4) For the purposes of this section, the prescribed quantity of water in

respect of a meter reading period is—

(a) in the case of a meter reading period that ends when the meter is read in pursuance of a direction under sub-section 17 (3)—a quantity of water that bears the same proportion to 455 kilolitres as the number of days in the meter reading period bears to 365; and

(b) in any other case—455 kilolitres.".

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 9 October 1980.

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; Nos. 28 and 46,1978; No. 28, 1979; Nos. 19 and 27,1980.