49Water rates

49 Water rates

(1)  Subject to section 48 , the undertakers may levy a water rate upon the annual value of all tenements supplied with water or as provided in section 50 .

(2)  *[Section 49 Subsection (2) amended by No. 30 of 1995, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ]*Water rates levied under this Act shall, subject to subsections (3) , (4) , and (5) , be made, levied, and recovered in the same manner as rates made and levied under the Local Government Act 1993 .

(3)  Water rates shall be paid in advance or otherwise and quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly, as determined by the undertakers; and the first payment shall be made at the time when the undertakers' channel by which the water is to be supplied is made to the boundary of the rateable tenement and charged with water.

(4)  Where the rateable tenement is a dwelling-house or part of a dwelling of an annual value less than $150 and occupied by a tenant for years or at will the water rate is payable by the person entitled to receive the rent thereof.

(5)  Where a tenancy affected by subsection (4) was created before the application of this Act to the water district or it is a term thereof that the tenant shall pay water rates, the person entitled to receive the rent may recover from the tenant as rent any rate paid by him under this section.

(6)  Where the supply of water is commenced or discontinued during any period as provided in subsection (3) a proportionate part only of the water rate shall be payable, but where the supply is discontinued otherwise than by default of the undertakers, the rate shall be payable in respect of the whole period unless notice of the discontinuance was given during the preceding period.