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Notice to Commissioner of Taxes.

Overpaid land tax to be credited.

Taxation Acts Amendment Act.-1900.

land tax, and absentee land tax, made under section 19 of the
"Taxation Act Amendment Act, 1894," or any other power
power thereunto
enabling, shall be reduced in like proportion, and the assessment
so reduced shall take effect from the thirtieth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-four. The Surveyor-General
shall give notice of any such reduction of unimproved value to
the Commissioner of Taxes, who shall thereupon make the neces-
sary reduction of the assessment.

4. If it shall be found that by reason of such reduction any land tax shall have been overpaid, the amount so overpaid shall be credited by the Commissioner of Taxes to the same land as against any future land tax which may become payable in respect thereof.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill. TENNYSON, Governor.

Adelaide By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North Terrace.

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ANNO SEX AGESIMO TERTIO ET SEXAGESIMO
QUARTO

VICTORIE REGINÆ.

A.D. 1900.

No. 735.

An Act to apply, out of the General Revenue, the sum of Four Hundred Thousand Pounds to the Service of the Year ending the Thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and one.

[Assented to, November 8th, 1900.]

E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of

BE

the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

of £400,000.

1. Out of the General Revenue of South Australia there shall Issue and application be issued and applied, from time to time, for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and one, any sums of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of Four Hundred Thousand Pounds.

exceed last year's Estimates.

2. No payments for any establishment or service shall be made Payments not to out of the said sum in excess of the rates voted for similar establishments or services on the Estimates for the year ended the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred, except so Exception. far as such rates are affected by the "Civil Service Act, 1874," or by departmental regulations.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill.

TENNYSON, Governor.

Adelaide By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North Terrace.

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An Act to amend the Water Conservation Acts.

[Assented to, December 5th, 1900.]

E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of

BE it

the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as The Water Conservation Amend- Short title. ment Act, 1900." and shall be incorporated with "The Water Conservation Act, 1886," and the Acts incorporated therewith, hereinafter referred to as the Water Conservation Acts.

2. The whole of Act No. 505 of 1891, section 146 of Act No. Repeal. 392 of 1886, and section 16 of Act No. 463 of 1889, are hereby repealed.

3. Every advance or loan under the Water Conservation Acts to Interest on loans. a Board shall be applied by the Board to the purpose for which the same was made, and shall be a debt due from such Board to the Commissioner, and shall bear interest at such rate not exceeding Four Pounds per centum per annum as the Commissioner may fix. All interest accruing on any such advance or loan up to the time when the Board shall have power to levy rates within its district in respect of any particular waterworks shall be capitalised and added to the advance or loan in respect of which such interest has accrued, and shall be deemed to be part thereof, and interest shall thereafter be payable half-yearly in advance on such advance or loan.

4. The provisions of the preceding section shall, so far as appli- Application to past cable, apply to loans or advances heretofore made.

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5. The maximum amount of any rate declared under section 106 of "The Water Conservation Act, 1886," for any one year may exceed Two Shillings in the Pound on the assesed annual value of any property, but shall not exceed Two Shillings and Sixpence in the Pound: Provided always that, in the case of any ratable tenement the assessed annual value of which does not exceed Ten Pounds, the Board may declare a minimum annual rate of One Pound sterling.

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6. In the construction of the Water Conservation Acts the word rate,” unless some other meaning is clearly intended, shall include every meter rent, fee, or other charge payable, and every reward or payment to be made, whether under agreement or otherwise, to the Commissioner or the Board for a supply of water from any waterworks, or for any purpose whatever.

7. It shall be sufficient if one copy of every assessment made by the Board shall be deposited for inspection in some convenient place within the district appointed by the Board, instead of three copies, as required by section 91 of "The Water Conservation Act, 1886."

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill. TENNYSON, Governor.

Adelaide By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North Terrace.

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