1990 - No. 457 WENTWORTH IRRIGATION ACT 1890 - REGULATION
(Relating to the payment of rates) NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 82 of 29 June 1990]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Wentworth Irrigation Act 1890, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

I. R. CAUSLEY Minister for Natural Resources. The Wentworth Irrigation (Former By-laws) Regulations 1926 are amended: (a) by omitting Regulation 4 (2), (3) and (4); (b) by omitting from Regulation 9A the words "31st July next following the year of supply or within 1 month after the date of notification of assessment, whichever is the later" and by inserting instead the words "the date specified in the notice of assessment under Regulation 9B for the period during which the water was supplied"; (c) by inserting after Regulation 9A the following Regulation: Payment of water rates 9B. (1) An owner of an irrigated holding is to be notified by means of a notice of assessment of: (a) the water rates fixed by the Ministerial Corporation for the current year; and

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1990 - No. 457 (b) the amount payable by the owner, in accordance with those rates, for the period to which the notice relates; and (c) the amount payable by the owner, for water supplied during an irrigation period in excess of the water to which an owner is entitled pursuant to a water rate, for the period to which the notice relates. (2) The amounts specified in the notice are to be paid to the Ministerial Corporation on or before the date for payment specified in the notice, which date must not be less than 28 days after the date of issue of the notice. (3) If an owner first becomes liable to a water rate after 1 July in any year, the amount of the rate is to be apportioned for the period from the date from which the rate becomes payable until 30 June next following on the basis of such proportion of the water rate as that period bears to the whole year. (4) If an owner ceases to be liable for a water rate because the tenure of an irrigated holding is terminated, the amount of the rate is to be apportioned for the period from 1 July next preceding the date of termination to that date on the basis of such proportion of the water rate as that period bears to the whole year.
EXPLANATORY NOTE The object of this Regulation is to amend the Wentworth Irrigation (Former By-law) Regulations 1926 to provide for the periodic assessment and payment of water rates. The proposed scheme replaces a scheme that provides for assessment and payment of water rates on an annual basis.

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