South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

IRRIGATION ACT 1994 - SECT 56

56—Declaration of water supply charges

        (1)         An authority may, in respect of a financial year or part of a financial year by notice published in a local newspaper, declare a water supply charge or water supply charges based on one, or a combination of two or more, of the following:

            (a)         the fact that land is connected, or the owner or occupier of land is entitled to have it connected, to the irrigation system; or

            (b)         the volume of water supplied to land during the charging period to which the declaration applies; or

            (c)         the area of the land to be irrigated; or

            (d)         such other factor or factors as the authority thinks fit.

        (2)         The authority may declare different charges—

            (a)         in respect of different parts of its district in order to recover water supply or drainage costs and other liabilities in respect of part of the district;

            (b)         for water supplied for irrigation purposes, domestic purposes or other purposes;

            (c)         depending upon the quality of the water supplied.

        (3)         In the case of water supplied for irrigation purposes the authority may declare a basic charge in respect of the water allocation and a further charge, or series of charges, that increase as the volume of water supplied to the land increases in excess of the water allocation.

        (4)         A water supply charge may be declared after the period to which it relates has commenced.