South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered ActsAfter section 65C insert:
65CAA—Related principles
(1) In providing for
the declaration, imposition and recovery of water rates, the following
principles will apply:
(a)
subject to paragraph (b), water rates will be fixed by the Minister
before the commencement of a financial year in relation to which the rates are
to apply, and that if rates are not fixed with respect to a financial year
before 1 June in any particular year then the rates will remain the same
and apply with respect to the immediately succeeding financial year;
(b) the
Minister may fix the minimum supply charge in respect of commercial land under
section 65C(1)(b) or the rate to be applied to the capital value of land
under section 65C(1)(c) at any time up to (and including) 31 July in
the financial year in relation to which the charges and rates are to apply;
(c) a
period used for the purposes of fixing a water use charge may be any period of
between 1 day and 12 months (being, in the case of 12 months, a
period constituting a financial year but not so as to derogate from the
operation of a succeeding paragraph);
(d)
water use charges may, depending on when meters are read and the form or
nature of the relevant rate or rates, be charged and recovered on a pro rata
basis according to—
(i)
readings that relate to water supplied during various
periods or parts of periods; and
(ii)
the application of the relevant rate or rates over the
period of supply to which a water use charge or charges are to be applied;
(e)
water use charges may, depending on when meters are read, be recovered after
the end of the financial year to which they relate.
(2) In connection with
the operation of subsection (1), any determination, calculation or
adjustment of any amount (whether in the nature of a water rate or in relation
to the supply of any water) over or in respect of any period or on a pro rata
basis may assume that water has been supplied at a uniform daily rate over any
relevant period.