Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts Every local government
may from time to time, as occasion may require, make and levy as aforesaid and
cause to be collected an annual rate for the purpose of providing for the
proper performance of all or any of the services mentioned in
section 112, and the maintenance of any sewerage works constructed by the
local government under Part IV.
Such annual rate shall
not exceed —
(a) 12
cents in the dollar on the gross rental value; or
(b)
where the system of valuation on the basis of the unimproved value is adopted,
3 cents in the dollar on the unimproved value of the land in fee simple:
Provided that the
local government may direct that the minimum annual amount payable in respect
of any one separate tenement shall not be less than $1.
Provided also, that
where any land in the district is not connected with any sewer, and a septic
tank or other sewerage system approved by the local government is installed
and used upon such land by the owner or occupier thereof for the collection,
removal, and disposal of nightsoil, urine, and liquid wastes upon such land,
the local government may by an entry in the rate record exempt such land from
assessment of the annual rate made and levied under this section, and, in lieu
of such annual rate, may, in respect of such land, make an annual charge under
and in accordance with section 106 for the removal of sewage from such
land.
[Section 41 amended by No. 5 of 1933
s. 2; No. 38 of 1933 s. 2; No. 25 of 1950 s. 5;
No. 113 of 1965 s. 4(1); No. 2 of 1975 s. 3; No. 76
of 1978 s. 51; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 36 of 2007
s. 100.]