LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 552
What land may be subject to a water supply special rate or charge?
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 552
What land may be subject to a water supply special rate or charge?
552 What land may be subject to a water supply special rate or charge?
(1) A
special rate or charge relating to water supply may be levied on--
(a) land
that is supplied with water from a water pipe of the council, and
(b) land
that is situated within 225 metres of a water pipe of the council whether the
land has a frontage or not to the public road (if any) in which the water pipe
is laid, and although the land is not actually supplied with water from any
water pipe of the council.
(2) A special rate or charge relating to water
supply may not be levied on land unless water could be supplied to some part
of the land from a standpipe at least 1 metre in height from the ground level,
if such a pipe were laid and connected to the council's mains.
(3) A special
rate or charge relating to sewerage may be levied on all land except--
(a)
land which is more than 75 metres from a sewer of the council and is not
connected to the sewer, and
(b) land from which sewage could not be
discharged into any sewer of the council.
(4) A special rate or charge
relating to drainage may be levied on rateable land that is within the basin
served by the drainage works.
