Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In this Act,
unless the context otherwise requires —
authorised , in relation to fittings, means
authorised by the water board;
by-laws means by-laws made by a water board;
chairman means the chairman of a water board, and
includes —
(a) the
mayor of a city or town; and
(b) the
president of a shire,
within the meaning and for the purposes of the
Local Government Act 1995 ;
Corporation means the Water Corporation
established by section 4 of the Water Corporation Act 1995 ;
country land means any holdings within the
boundaries of a water area, but not within a district, townsite, or suburban
area;
district means an area that has been declared to
be a district under the Local Government Act 1995 ;
holding means any piece or parcel of land held in
fee simple or on conditional purchase lease, pastoral lease, or otherwise,
under the Land Administration Act 1997 , or any regulation thereunder or
thereby repealed, constituting, owned, or occupied as one property;
member means a member of a water board;
rateable land means all land, with the exception
of the following: — Land belonging to the Crown and not used
or occupied otherwise than for public purposes; land vested in or in the
occupation or under the control of a local government, and not in the use or
occupation of any private person; land used exclusively for religious or
charitable purposes; land used exclusively as a public hospital, benevolent
asylum, orphanage, public school, public library, miners’ or
mechanics’ institute; public reserves and cemeteries; land belonging to
any religious body and occupied only as a convent, nunnery, or monastery, or
by a religious brotherhood or sisterhood, or as a place of residence of a
minister of religion;
ratepayer means a person named in the records of a
water board as a person liable to pay water rates;
water area means an area of the State constituted
as a water area under section 4;
water board or board means a water board
constituted under the provisions of this Act;
watercourse means —
(a) any
river, creek, stream or brook, whether artificially improved or altered or
not;
(b) any
conduit that wholly or partially diverts a river, creek, stream or brook from
its natural course and forms part of the river, creek, stream or brook;
(c) any
natural collection of water into, through or out of which any thing referred
to in paragraph (a) or (b) flows, whether artificially improved or
altered or not,
in which water flows or is contained whether
permanently, intermittently or occasionally, together with the bed and banks
of any thing referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).
waterworks or works means any reservoir, well,
bore, tank, aqueduct, tunnel, building, engine, pipe, or other work
constructed or erected before the passing of this Act, or by this Act
authorised to be constructed or erected, with the appurtenances.
(2) Terms not
otherwise assigned a meaning under subsection (1) but referred to in
section 3 of the Water Agencies (Powers) Act 1984 as having a
meaning assigned for the purposes of a relevant Act have that meaning in and
for the purposes of this Act.
[Section 3 amended by No. 16 of 1925
s. 2; No. 97 of 1978 s. 4; No. 63 of 1981 s. 4;
No. 25 of 1985 s. 331; No. 110 of 1985 s. 136; No. 73
of 1995 s. 142; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 59 of 2000
s. 51; No. 67 of 2003 s. 62; No. 38 of 2007 s. 201(2).]