Western Australian Consolidated Acts

METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY, SEWERAGE, AND DRAINAGE ACT 1909

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   5.      Interpretation  

   PART II -- The Area  

   6.      Constitution of Area  
   7.      Power to alter boundaries  

   PART IV -- Water reserves  

   13.     Power of Governor to constitute etc., water reserves or catchment areas  
   14.     Power to divert, intercept, and store water  
   15.     Power to take land  
   16.     Penalty for diverting or taking water  
   17.     Minister may exercise powers of a local government  

   PART V -- Vesting of property and the construction and maintenance of works  

   31.     Altering sewers  
   32.     Corporation to keep sewers cleansed  
   33.     As to ventilators, etc.  

   PART VI -- Water supply  

   36.     Land to be supplied with water  
   37.     Request for supply to rated land  
   38.     Supply to land not rated  
   39.     Corporation may supply meter and charge by measure  
   40.     Record of meter to be prima facie evidence of water supplied  
   41.     Water may be cut off from unoccupied premises  
   42.     Provision for supplying groups of houses  
   43.     Supply to persons outside area  
   45.     Fire hydrants  
   47.     Duty to keep fittings in repair  
   49.     Power to enter and examine whether water is wasted, etc.  
   50.     Protection of fittings  
   50A.    Construction over water mains prohibited without consent of Corporation  
   51.     Power to enter on land and fix fittings  
   52.     Penalty for using unauthorised fittings  
   53.     Penalty for not repairing fittings  
   54.     Penalty for destroying valves, etc.  
   55.     Penalty for taking, etc., water in contravention of this Act  
   56.     Fraudulent taking of water  
   56A.    Recovery of moneys by Corporation  
   56B.    Evidentiary provision  
   57.     Other consequences of contravening this Act or the by-laws  
   57A.    Constituting of Underground Water Pollution Control Areas  
   57B.    By-laws  
   57C.    Power of Minister to grant dispensation from by-laws  
   57D.    Review of refusal to grant dispensation or alteration thereof  
   57E.    Constituting Public Water Supply Areas  
   57EA.   Power to take water  
   57F.    Wells to be licensed  
   57G.    Licences and issuing thereof  
   57H.    Conditions of licence to be complied with  
   57I.    Maintenance of well by holder of licence  

   PART VII -- Sewerage  

   58.     Owners and occupiers to make property sewers to public sewers  
   59.     Corporation may make property sewers and attach ventilators in default of compliance with orders  
   60.     Cost of property sewers by whom payable  
   61.     Persons liable for payment for compulsory drainage may agree to pay by deferred payments  
   61A.    Power of Corporation to construct sewer for land not rated under Act  
   63.     Property sewers to be cleansed  
   64.     Notice to be given to Corporation before commencing or continuing sanitary work  
   65.     Inspection by Corporation  
   66.     Construction over sewers prohibited without prior consent of Corporation  
   67.     Inspection of communicating property sewers  
   68.     Penalty for giving use of property sewer without permission  
   69.     Penalty for destroying sewers and fittings  
   70.     Power to construct common property sewer  

   PART VIII -- Liability for and recovery of water charges  

   103.    Who is liable for charges  
   104.    Payment by mortgagee  
   105.    Charges apportioned on the occupier, etc., quitting  
   105A.   Apportionment of charges not to affect entitlement to water in respect of charges paid  
   105B.   Apportionment of water supplied  
   106.    Persons liable to be resorted to in succession  
   109.    How charges may be recovered  
   110.    Records to be evidence  
   112.    Application and expiry of this Division  
   113.    Power to lease land on which arrears of charges are due  
   114.    Procedure  
   115.    Release of property after demand and payment of arrears  
   116.    Appropriation of rents received  
   117.    Land, when vested in the Corporation  

   PART XI -- By-laws  

   146.    Minister may make by-laws  

   PART XII -- General provisions  

   148.    Notification of building or alteration  
   149.    Notices  
   150.    Notices and demands, how served  
   151.    Notices binding on persons claiming under owner or occupier  
   152.    Rights of occupiers  
   152A.   Limitation period for prosecutions  
   153.    Saving of civil remedy  
   154.    Recovery of value of water misused, etc.  
   155.    Contribution between owner and occupier  
   156.    Obstructing Minister or the Corporation or officers in performance of duty  
   157.    Penalty for refusing to give up possession of works  
   158.    Offenders may be arrested  
   158A.   General penalty  
   159.    Proceedings for offences etc.  
   161.    Corporation may be represented by officer  
   165.    Proof of ownership or occupancy  
   166.    Power to suspend certain provisions of the Local Government Act 1995  
            
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