Australian Capital Territory Numbered Ordinances

Sewerage Rates (Amendment) Ordinance (No 2) 1984

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Sewerage Rates (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 2) 1984

No. 29 of 1984

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 27 June 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

TOM UREN

Minister of State for Territories and Local Government

An Ordinance to amend the Sewerage Rates Ordinance 1968

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sewerage Rates (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 2) 1984.¹

Commencement

2. This Ordinance shall come into operation on 1 July 1984.

Principal Ordinance

3. In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Sewerage Rates Ordinance 1968.²

Accounts for rates

4. Section 19 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (3) “on or before which that last-mentioned amount is to be paid” and substituting “for the payment of the last-mentioned amount”.

Payment of rates

5. Section 19A of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-sections (1), (2), (3) and (4) and substituting the following sub-sections:

“(1) The due date for the payment of sewerage rates imposed in a rating year in respect of a parcel of rateable land is—

(a) in respect of increased sewerage rates where the date of the notice given under sub-section 19 (3) to the person liable to pay those rates is later than 28 days before the next instalment day—the instalment day next following that instalment day;

(b) in respect of increased sewerage rates where the date of the notice given under sub-section 19 (3) to the person liable to pay those rates is not later than 28 days before the next instalment day—that instalment day; and

(c) in any other case—the date specified in the notice given under sub-section 19 (1) to the person liable to pay those rates as the due date for the payment of those rates, being a date not earlier than 28 days after the date of the notice.

“(2) Subject to sub-sections (3) and (4), rates are payable in accordance with sub-section (5).

“(3) Where the date of the notice given under sub-section 19 (1) to each person liable to pay the sewerage rates imposed in a rating year in respect of a parcel of rateable land is a date later than 28 days before the last instalment day in that year, those rates are payable on the due date for the payment of those rates.

“(4) Where—

(a) the whole of the increased sewerage rates specified in a notice given under sub-section 19 (3) to each person liable to pay those rates were imposed in a previous rating year;or

(b) the date of a notice given under sub-section 19 (3) to each person liable to pay increased sewerage rates is later than 28 days before the last instalment day in the relevant rating year,

those rates are payable on the due date for the payment of those rates.”;

(b) by omitting from sub-section (5) “to whom this sub-section applies”; and

(c) by omitting sub-section (8) and substituting the following sub-section:

“(8) In this section—

‘increased sewerage rates’ means the amount by which the amount of sewerage rates imposed in a rating year in respect of a parcel of rateable land is increased by virtue of section 11;

‘instalment day’ means 15 October, 15 December, 15 February and 15 April.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1984.

2. No. 30, 1968 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to No. 28, 1984 and see also No. 28, 1984.