38 VICTORIA, which by the principal Act meanings have been assigned have the same meanings respectively in this Act. No. 500. No. 448. Repeal of sec. 3. Power to make rates. Nature and limits of rate. Rates may be 2. In the interpretation of the word rates in section two of the principal Act the figures "CLXXVI." shall be deemed to be followed by the words "or any Act or Acts for the time being in force relating to local government." 3. The third section of the principal Act is hereby repealed: Provided that all rates heretofore made or levied under or in pursuance of the said section shall be of the same force and effect to all intents and purposes as if the said section had not been repealed. 4. Whenever any money has been granted or advanced or may hereafter be granted or be advanced as a grant or loan by the Governor in Council to purchase or construct waterworks the local governing body to which such grant or loan has been made or may be hereafter made may from time to time, for all or any of the purposes of paying interest at the rate of Six pounds per centum per annum on such loan or maintaining such waterworks in an efficient state or extending the same as occasion may require, make and levy rates upon all lands and tenements within the water supply district. 5. Any such rate may be made for one or more years or for an unlimited time, and may be either uniform in amount on all the rateable property in the water supply district or may vary in amount upon a sliding scale according to the valuation of the various rateable properties, but except in any district comprised within a commission issued under the provisions of the "Waterworks Commissioners Act 1869," in which case the rates and charges shall not exceed the amount set forth in the commission, no such rate shall exceed the amount of Ten pounds per centum per annum on the annual valuation of the property, nor, except as aforesaid, shall such rate in respect of any one house or tenement be less than the sum of Ten shillings per annum. 6. Any such rate may be made by the local governing body made by bye-law. by bye-law in the form or to the effect contained in the schedule hereto, and every such bye-law shall be published once in the Government Gazette and once in some newspaper circulating in the water supply district, and from and after such publication shall have the force of law in such district; and any such bye-law may from time to time be repealed by the local governing body and another substituted in its stead. Valuation. Inspection of 7. The valuation for the time being of all lands and tenements for the municipal rate of the city town borough shire or road district in which such lands and tenements are situate shall be deemed and taken to be the valuation of such lands and tenements respectively for the purpose of this Act. 8. Any officer of any local governing body hereby authorized to municipal valua- make and levy a rate, being authorized in that behalf by such local governing body, shall be entitled at all reasonable times without charge to inspect any valuation rate or assessment for any city town borough shire or road district wholly or in part within the water No. 500. supply district for which such rate may be made and levied, and to 38 VICTORIA, take a copy of or make extracts from the same: And if any person having the custody of any such valuation rate or assessment shall refuse or neglect to allow such officer upon due request to inspect at any reasonable time such valuation rate or assessment or to take a copy of or make extracts from the same, the person so refusing or neglecting shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding Twenty pounds. by measure. 9. Any local governing body hereby authorized to make and charges for water levy a rate may fix a scale of charges for water supplied by measure and a minimum quantity of water to be charged for in cases where water is so supplied, and may determine the time at which any such charge shall be payable whether in advance or otherwise. ments. 10. Any local governing body hereby authorized to make and special agreelevy a rate may from time to time enter into and make any special agreement with any person corporation or company in respect of the quantity of water to be supplied and the charge to be paid for the same irrespective of any rate or charge made as aforesaid: But so nevertheless that in no case shall any such person corporation or company pay less for the supply of water to any premises occupied by him or it than the amount for the time being payable under any rate made under the provisions of this Act in respect of such premises. and charges. 11. All rates and charges made or charged under the authority Recovery of rates of this Act or under any such special agreement as aforesaid may be recovered in a summary way before a police magistrate by any person appointed by the local governing body to collect and recover the same: Provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken to affect or limit the power of distress conferred upon the local governing body by the two hundred and forty-seventh section of "The Public Works Statute 1865" incorporated with the principal Act; and the form of distress in the Fourth Schedule to said last mentioned Statute shall be under the hand and seal of the mayor president chairman or presiding officer for the time being of such local governing body. reduction of 12. All money paid by any local governing body by way of surplus interest interest on any sum of money borrowed from the Government in to be applied in excess of the rate of interest paid by the Government on the loan principal. out of which such sum was advanced shall be applied in reduction of the principal sum advanced. ply. 13. The Board of Land and Works or the local governing body Extension of Geefor the time being having the care and management of the works for long water supthe supply of water to the town of Geelong and the suburbs thereof may supply water from such works to the inhabitants of the township of Anakie and to any land or tenement within a distance of ten miles on either side of the main pipe from Stony Creek to Geelong and make and levy rates and charges for the supply thereof, and the said township of Anakie and the area within a distance of ten miles on either side of the said main pipe shall for all purposes of water supply be deemed and taken to be within the suburbs of the town of Geelong within the meaning of "The Public Works Statute No. 500. 38 VICTORIA, 1865" notwithstanding the same or any part thereof shall be at a greater distance than five miles from the post office in the town of Geelong. Act to be read as part of "The 14. This Act shall be read and construed together with and as Local Governing part of the principal Act, and shall be deemed and taken to be included in the citation thereof by its short title. Bodies Loan Act 1872." SCHEDULE. [Title of Local Governing Body.] BYE-LAW MAKING A RATE FOR WATER SUPPLY PURPOSES. The [Local Governing Body] doth hereby pursuant to and in exercise and execution of the powers and authorities conferred on it by "The Local Governing Bodies Loan Act 1872" make the following rate [if for a limited number of years] for years from the date hereof upon all lands and tenements within the water supply district, that is to say : The rates and charges hereinafter specified are those which the owners and occupiers of lands and tenements shall pay in respect of water supplied otherwise than by measure for domestic purposes. On every house or tenement, of whatever annual value, the annual sum of sum of £ On every house or tenement above the annual value of £ and under, the annual and not exceeding of the valuation. and not exceeding per centum on the amount of the valuation. Warehouses and wholesale stores, not being domiciles or used in retail business, the annual sum of per centum on the amount of the valuation. £ the The foregoing bye-law was made and passed by [the Local Governing Body] on day of A. B., Mayor, President, Chairman [or, as the case may be] of [the Local Governing Body]. Title. Repeal of Act. Customary mea An Act to amend the Law relating to Weights and BE [2nd June 1864.] E it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows: 1. This Act shall be called and may be cited as "The Weights and Measures Statute 1864." 2. The Act of the Parliament of Victoria numbered CLI. shall be and the same is hereby repealed; but such repeal shall not affect any offence committed against or any proceeding or thing done or commenced under the said repealed Act. 3. The measures called severally the "Winchester Bushel" and sures abolished. the "Scotch Ell" and also the use of heaped measure shall be and the same are hereby respectively abolished. 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 63 ss. 6 & 7. Primary standards. Standards. 4. As soon as practicable after the passing of this Act the Governor in Council shall obtain the undermentioned weights and measures, duly verified as agreeing with the weights and measures preserved in the Exchequer at Westminster: One pound of avoirdupois weight; One pound of troy weight each made of platinum; And such weights and measures when so obtained shall be deposited 5. The several weights and measures mentioned in the First First Schedule. Schedule hereto which are now in the custody or under the control of the said Commissioner and have been duly verified and certified as agreeing with the weights and measures preserved in the said exchequer shall be "standard weights and measures." |