South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WATERWORKS ACT 1932 - SECT 37

37—Power to make agreement to supply water by measure

        (1)         The Corporation may, instead of levying water rates upon any land in pursuance of this Act, enter into an agreement with the owner or occupier of the land to supply him upon that land with water by measure at such rates, upon such terms, and subject to such conditions, as may from time to time be determined by the Corporation.

        (2)         The Corporation and every other party to each such agreement shall be deemed to have entered into the agreement subject to the provisions of this Act. The owner or occupier of the said land, and every subsequent owner and occupier thereof, shall hold or occupy the same subject to such agreement, and be bound by the same agreement as if parties thereto.

        (3)         The land to which water shall be supplied to the owner thereof under any such agreement shall be charged with the moneys from time to time due to the Corporation for water so supplied, and such moneys shall be deemed to be and shall be recoverable as water rates.

        (4)         In any legal proceedings an apparently genuine document purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the Corporation and stating that a quantity of water specified in the document has been supplied in pursuance of an agreement under this section shall be deemed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, to be proof of the fact that that quantity of water has in fact been supplied in pursuance of an agreement with the person named in the document.