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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
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:
This Act may be cited as the Waterworks (Quarterly Supply Information)
Amendment Act 2008.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act will come into operation on
assent.
(2) Section 5 will come into operation on
1 July 2010.
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
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.