South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In this Act,
except when inconsistent with the context—
"Corporation" means South Australian Water Corporation established under the
South Australian Water Corporation Act 1994 ;
"country drainage area" means any drainage area other than the Adelaide
drainage area;
"drain" means any drain of, and used for the drainage of one building only, or
of premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of
communicating with a cesspit or like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer
into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by
different persons is conveyed;
"drainage area" means all land to which, immediately before the passing of
this Act, the Acts hereby repealed applied, and includes all other land
declared by proclamation made under this Act to form the whole or part of a
drainage area;
"equipment" includes appliances and apparatus;
"fittings" includes cocks, valves, cisterns, water pipes, traps, syphons,
manholes, lampholes, ventilators, entrances, and other apparatus;
"land" includes premises;
"owner" includes the person for the time being receiving the rent of the lands
in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as
agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the same if the
land were let at a rent;
"payment day" means the day on which sewerage rates are payable upon land
within a drainage area pursuant to the provisions of section 79 of this
Act;
"premises" means any house and any public or private building whatsoever, and
any part of any house or building, and any garden, stable, yard, or other
offices used together or in connection with any house or building, and every
part thereof;
"sewer" means sewer or drain of every description, except a drain as
hereinbefore defined;
"street" includes any square, court, alley, highway, bridge, lane, road,
thoroughfare, passage, or place;
"sewerage rates" means rates made and levied under the provisions of this Act
or any Act hereby repealed;
"undertaking" means the sewers, drains, and other works connected to the
sewers and drains, authorised by this or another Act to be constructed and
maintained, and includes all fittings laid down or fixed by the Minister or
the Corporation and all land held or used by the Minister or the Corporation
for the purposes of this Act;
"vacant land" means unoccupied land which is not built upon and which is not
appurtenant to, or used in connection with, any building, whether the said
land is used for the purpose of depasturing cattle thereon or otherwise.
(2) For the purposes
of this Act, a reference to connection to or disconnection from the
undertaking includes a reference to connection to or disconnection from a
drain or pipe through which waste material may be discharged into the
undertaking.