Water Assurance Charges Act 1991 (NI)

NORFOLK ISLAND

Water Assurance Act 1991

No. 3, 1991

Compilation No. 1

Compilation date: 13 August 2019

Includes amendments up to: Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015 (No. 2, 2015) as amended up to Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment (Fees and Other Matters) Ordinance 2019 (F2019L01048)

NORFOLK ISLAND

WATER ASSURANCE ACT 1991

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TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title 2. Interpretation 2A. Approved fees 3. Assessment of approved fees 4. Assessment method — general rules 5. Assessment method — special cases 6. Notice of assessments 7. Recovery of approved fee 8. Variation of assessments 9. Review of assessments 10. Powers of entry 10A. Regulations Schedule

NORFOLK ISLAND

Water Assurance Act 1991 _______________________________________________________________________

An Act to assess approved fees for use of the Water Assurance Scheme, and for related purposes.

Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Water Assurance Act 1991.

Interpretation 2. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears — "assessment" means an assessment under section 3 of the approved fee to be paid in relation to premises; "connection", in relation to premises, means the direct or indirect connection of a sanitary facility that is in or on the premises to a sewer; "instrument of registration", in relation to a tourist accommodation house, means an instrument referred to in section 13 of the Tourist Accommodation Act 1984; "premises" includes land or a building; "scheduled purpose" means a purpose specified in the Schedule. (2) Unless the contrary intention appears, an expression defined in the Environment Act 1990 has the same meaning in this Act as it does for the purposes of that Act. (3) For the purposes of this Act, premises are to be taken to have been connected at the time when a sanitary facility that is in or on the premises is first able to be effectively discharged into a sewer.