AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Sewerage Rates (Amendment) Ordinance 1984
No. 28 of 1984
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910. 
Dated 27 June 1984.
	N. M. STEPHEN
	Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
TOM UREN
Minister of State for Territories and Local Government

An Ordinance to amend the Sewerage Rates Ordinance 1968
Short title
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Sewerage Rates (Amendment) Ordinance 1984.1
Principal Ordinance
2.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Sewerage Rates Ordinance 1968.2
3.  Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the following sections are substituted:
Amount of rates where land becomes rateable in rating year
“10.  (1)  Where a parcel of land—
	(a)	is, on any day in a rating year—
	(i)	occupied freehold land;
	(ii)	land held under lease from the Commonwealth; or
	(iii)	land occupied by a person or persons with the consent of the Commonwealth;
	(b)	is not before the day on which it becomes so occupied or held a parcel of rateable land; and
	(c)	becomes, on that day or a subsequent day in the rating year, a parcel of rateable land,
the amount of sewerage rates imposed in the rating year in respect of the parcel is, subject to this Ordinance, the amount ascertained in accordance with the formula , where—
	A	is the amount of sewerage rates that would be imposed by section 8 in a rating year in respect of the parcel of land if the day on which the parcel becomes a parcel of rateable land were the first day of the rating year; and
	B	is the number of days in the period from and including the day on which it becomes such a parcel to and including the last day in the rating year.
“(2)  Where the amount of sewerage rates payable in respect of a parcel of rateable land in a rating year is fixed by sub-section (1), the sewerage rates become due on the day on which the parcel of land becomes a parcel of rateable land.
Amount of rates where rateable land is leased or occupied in rating year
“10A.  (1)  Where a parcel of land is, on any day in a rating year, a parcel of rateable land and, on a subsequent day in the rating year, first becomes—
	(a)	land held under lease from the Commonwealth; or
	(b)	land occupied by a person or persons with the consent of the Commonwealth,
the amount of sewerage rates imposed in the rating year in respect of the parcel is, subject to this Ordinance, the amount ascertained in accordance with the formula , where—
	A	is the amount of sewerage rates that would be imposed by section 8 in a rating year in respect of the parcel of land if the day on which the parcel first becomes land so held or occupied were the first day of the rating year; and
	B	is the number of days in the period from and including the day on which it first becomes so held or occupied to and including the last day in the rating year.
“(2)  Where the amount of sewerage rates payable in respect of a parcel of rateable land in a rating year is fixed by sub-section (1), the sewerage rates become due on the day on which the parcel of land first becomes—
	(a)	land held under lease from the Commonwealth; or
	(b)	land occupied by a person or persons with the consent of the Commonwealth,
as the case requires.”.
Application
4.  The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance, applies to and in relation to sewerage rates imposed in respect of the rating year that commenced on 1 July 1984 and each subsequent rating year.

NOTES
1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1984.
2.	No. 30, 1968 as amended by No. 22, 1969; No. 50, 1970; No. 25, 1972; No. 25, 1973; No. 30, 1974; No. 21, 1975; No. 35, 1976; Nos. 9, 43 and 46, 1977; No. 27, 1978; No. 27, 1979; Nos. 18, 30 and 35, 1980; No. 28, 1981; Act No. 74, 1981; Nos. 75, 76 and 97, 1982; No. 26, 1983.