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Christmas Island Utilities and Services (Water, Sewerage and Building Application Services Fees) Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Determination 2021

I, Natasha Griggs, Administrator of the Territory of Christmas Island, make the following determination.

Dated 25 June 2021

Natasha Griggs

Administrator of the Territory of Christmas Island

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Christmas Island Utilities and Services (Water, Sewerage and Building Application Services Fees) Determination 2016

1  Name

  This instrument is the Christmas Island Utilities and Services (Water, Sewerage and Building Application Services Fees) Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Determination 2021.

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 July 2021.

1 July 2021

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Christmas Island 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

 

Christmas Island Utilities and Services (Water, Sewerage and Building Application Services Fees) Determination 2016

1  Section 4

Insert:

area associated with a dwelling has the same meaning as in subsection 3(1) of the Water Services Act 2012 (WA) (CI).

dwelling has the same meaning as in subsection 3(1) of the Water Services Act 2012 (WA) (CI).

multiresidential dwelling means a building or structure that consists of 2 or more separate dwellings.

2  Subsection 6(2)

Omit “1 November 2020”, substitute “1 July 2021”.

3  Subclause 1(2) of Schedule 1 (table items 1 to 6)

Repeal the items, substitute:

 

1

residential land

$268.98

2

commercial land or industrial land (other than land mentioned in item 5), commercial/residential land, mining 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 40 mm meter

(d) a 50 mm meter

(e) an 80 mm meter

(f) a 100 mm meter

(g) a 150 mm meter

 

 

 

$285.82

$446.63

$1,143.37

$1,786.48

$4,573.40

$7,145.93

$16,078.34

3

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

Nil

4

vacant land

$268.98

5

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

$285.82

6

any land, for the supply of a fire service

$285.82

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

Repeal the items, substitute:

 

1

residential land:

 

 

(a) rate in the dollar

$0.14908 per $1 of gross rental value

 

(b) minimum annual fee

$446.78

 

(c) maximum annual fee

$1,219.76

2

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

(a) first major fixture

(b) second major fixture

(c) third major fixture

(d) each subsequent major fixture

(e) minimum annual fee

 

 

$1,072.88

$459.25

$613.32

$666.95

$1,072.88

3

vacant land:

 

 

(a) rate in the dollar

$0.14908 per $1 of gross rental value

 

(b) minimum annual fee

$294.00

 

(c) maximum annual fee (if zoned for future residential use)

$1,219.76

4

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

(a) first major fixture

(b) each subsequent major fixture

 

 

$288.25

$126.82

5

government land:

(a) first major fixture

(b) second major fixture

(c) third major fixture

(d) each subsequent major fixture

 

$1,072.88

$459.25

$613.32

$666.95

6

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

$666.95

5  Clause 1 of Schedule 3 (table items 1 to 7)

Repeal the items, substitute:

 

1

residential land or vacant land that has been zoned for residential purposes:

(a) 0 to 350 kL

(b) 351 to 500 kL

(c) 501 to 750 kL

(d) over 750 kL

 

 

$1.859

$2.477

$5.497

$9.452

2

commercial/residential land:

(a) 0 to 150 kL

(b) over 150 kL

 

$1.859

$8.995

3

vacant land not mentioned in item 1

$8.995

4

government land

$8.995

5

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

$2.729

6

commercial land, industrial land, mining land, or shipping (supply of water services to land for the purpose of water being taken on board a ship in a port)

$8.995

7

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

$3.942

6  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

 

$22.42

$34.40

4

Advice of sale requests:

(a) advice—standard

(b) advice—urgent

 

$30.71

$42.68

5

Meter tests:

(a) 20 mm to 25 mm meters

(b) meters over 25 mm

 

$117.51

quoted cost

6

Restoration of service after restriction:

 

 

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

$182.73

 

(b) any other time

$290.37

7  Clause 1 of Schedule 5

Before “The table”, insert “(1)”.

8  Clause 1 of Schedule 5 (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

Fees for the supply of building application services that relate to water and sewerage services

Item

Supply of the building application service of dealing with a notice under section 82 of the Water Services Act 2012 (WA) (CI) to construct or alter …

Fee

1

a dwelling (other than a multiresidential dwelling)

$106.14

2

a building (including a pool or garage) in the area associated with a dwelling that:

(a) is not a multiresidential dwelling; and

(b) is on land that is sewered

$106.14

3

a multiresidential dwelling

$194.13

4

a building other than a building covered by item 1, 2 or 3

$249.15

9  At the end of clause 1 of Schedule 5

Add:

 (2) For the purposes of item 2 of the table, land is sewered if a wastewater inlet on the land is connected to a sewer, or could be connected if the owner or occupier of the land chose to.