AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

SEWERAGE RATES ORDINANCE 1972

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 25 of 1972

	The proposed Sewerage Rates Ordinance 1972 will, in respect of the rating year which commenced on 1 July 1972, increase the amount of sewerage rates –

•	in respect of houses and flats – from ten dollars to fifteen dollars; and

•	in respect of schools, churches, hospitals and charitable institutions – from ten dollars to fifteen dollars for up to two flushed sanitary fixtures and from five dollars to seven dollars and 50 cents for each fixture in excess of two.

	The proposed increases will bring the charges for sewerage facilities closer to the actual cost of providing such facilities.

          R.J.H
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(Minister’s Initials)