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Cocos (Keeling) Islands Utilities and Services (Water, Sewerage and Building Application Services Fees) Amendment (2020 Measures No. 1) Determination 2020

I, Natasha Griggs, Administrator of the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, make the following determination.

Dated 3 September 2020

Natasha Griggs

Administrator of the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Cocos (Keeling) Islands Utilities and Services (Water, Sewerage and Building Application Services Fees) Determination 2016

1  Name

  This instrument is the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Utilities and Services (Water, Sewerage and Building Application Services Fees) Amendment (2020 Measures No. 1) Determination 2020.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

1 November 2020.

1 November 2020

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under paragraph 7(2)(a) of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Utilities and Services Ordinance 2016.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

 

Cocos (Keeling) Islands Utilities and Services (Water, Sewerage and Building Application Services Fees) Determination 2016

1  Section 4

Insert:

commercial/residential land: see subsection 5(2A).

2  After subsection 5(2)

Insert:

 (2A) Land is commercial/residential land if:

 (a) the land is used, but not wholly or primarily, for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (2)(a); and

 (b) the land is used for one or more of the following purposes:

 (i) a shop;

 (ii) a workshop;

 (iii) an office;

 (iv) a bakery;

 (v) a surgery;

 (vi) any other business purpose.

3  Subsection 6(2)

Omit “1 July 2019”, substitute “1 November 2020”.

4  Subclause 1(2) of Schedule 1 (table item 2)

Repeal the item, substitute:

 

2

commercial land or industrial land (other than land mentioned in item 5), commercial/residential land, government land, or shipping (supply of water services to land for the purpose of water being taken on board a ship in a port), with:

(a) no meter or a 15 mm or 20 mm meter

(b) a 25 mm meter

(c) a 30 mm meter

(d) a 35 mm, 38 mm or 40 mm meter

(e) a 50 mm meter

(f) a 70 mm, 75 mm or 80 mm meter

(g) a 100 mm meter

(h) a 140 mm or 150 mm meter

$278.85

$435.74

$627.41

$1,115.48

$1,742.91

$4,461.85

$6,971.64

$15,686.19

 

5  Subclause 1(2) of Schedule 1 (table items 5 and 6)

Repeal the items, substitute:

 

5

stratatitled commercial land or industrial land, if sharing a water service

$278.85

6

any land, for the supply of a fire service

$278.85

 

6  Clause 1 of Schedule 2 (table item 2)

Repeal the item, substitute:

 

2

commercial land or industrial land (other than land mentioned in item 6):

(a) first major fixture

(b) second major fixture

(c) third major fixture

(d) each subsequent major fixture

(e) minimum annual fee

 

 

$1,046.71

$448.05

$598.36

$650.68

$1,046.71

 

7  Clause 1 of Schedule 2 (table items 4 to 6)

Repeal the items, substitute:

 

4

institutional/public land, charitable purposes land or local government land:

(a) first major fixture

(b) each subsequent major fixture

 

 

$281.22

$123.73

5

government land:

(a) first major fixture

(b) second major fixture

(c) third major fixture

(d) each subsequent major fixture

 

$1,046.71

$448.05

$598.36

$650.68

6

stratatitled commercial land or industrial land, if sharing a major fixture

$650.68

 

8  Clause 1 of Schedule 3 (table items 2 to 5)

Repeal the items, substitute:

 

1A

commercial/residential land:

(a) 0 to 150 kL

(b) over 150 kL

 

$1.827

$8.776

2

vacant land not mentioned in item 1

$8.776

3

institutional/public land, charitable purposes land or local government land

$2.662

4

commercial land, government land or industrial land

$8.776

5

commercial land, government land or industrial land—discharge to sewer:

(a) 0 to 200 kL per property (allowance)

(b) over 200 kL per property

 

 

Nil

$3.846

 

9  Subclause 1(1) of Schedule 4 (table items 3 to 6)

Repeal the items, substitute:

 

3

Special meter readings for change of owner or occupier:

(a) within 7 days of being requested

(b) within 2 days of being requested

 

$17.68

$59.41

4

Advice of sale requests:

(a) standard

(b) urgent

 

$30.18

$41.95

5

Meter tests:

(a) 20 mm to 25 mm meters

(b) meters over 25 mm

 

$113.50

quoted cost

6

Restoration of service after restriction:

 

 

(a) between 7 am and 4 pm any day except Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday

$179.59

 

(b) any other time

$285.38