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WATERWORKS (QUARTERLY SUPPLY INFORMATION) AMENDMENT BILL 2008

South Australia

Waterworks (Quarterly Supply Information) Amendment Bill 2008

A BILL FOR

An Act to amend the Waterworks Act 1932.


Contents

Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions

Part 2—Amendment of Waterworks Act 1932
4 Insertion of section 86C
86C Scheme to install separate meters for all properties
5 Amendment of section 94—Time for payment of rates and information to be included on account


The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Waterworks (Quarterly Supply Information) Amendment Act 2008.

2—Commencement

(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act will come into operation on assent.

(2) Section 5 will come into operation on 1 July 2010.

3—Amendment provisions

In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Waterworks Act 1932

4—Insertion of section 86C

After section 86B insert:

86C—Scheme to install separate meters for all properties

(1) The Corporation must establish a scheme under which all land—

(a) that is subject to a separate occupation; and

(b) that is supplied with water by the Corporation as part of a reticulated water system,

will have a meter that records the amount of water supplied to that piece of land.

(2) The Corporation must seek to ensure that the meters required for the purposes of subsection (1) are fitted by 31 December 2012.

(3) The scheme is not required to extend to premises where it is not reasonably practicable to fit a separate meter.

(4) The Corporation must, as part of each annual report up to and including the 2012/2013 annual report, set out information about the scheme established under subsection (1) and the extent to which the goal set out in subsection (2) is being (or has been) achieved.

5—Amendment of section 94—Time for payment of rates and information to be included on account

Section 94—after subsection (5) insert:

(6) Except where subsection (5) applies—

(a) a water consumption rate that is not in arrears must be recovered on the basis of 4 billing periods, each of 3 months or approximately 3 months, in respect of each consumption year; and

(b) a notice to an owner or occupier of land under subsection (1)(b) must set out the volume of water supplied—

(i) in respect of the billing period to which the notice relates; and

(ii) in respect of each of the 3 billing periods immediately preceding the period to which the notice relates.

 


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