New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 539

539 What criteria are relevant in determining the amount of a charge?

(1) In determining the amount of a charge for a service, the council may have regard to (but is not limited to) the following:

• the purpose for which the service is provided

• the nature, extent and frequency of the service

• the cost of providing the service

• the categorisation for rating purposes of the land to which the service is provided

• the nature and use of premises to which the service is provided

• the area of land to which the service is provided

• in the case of water supply services-the quantity of water supplied.

(2) The amount of a charge need not be limited to recovering the cost of providing the service for which the charge is made, except as provided by sections 503 (2) and 504 (3).