South Australian Consolidated Acts

SEWERAGE ACT 1929 - SECT 5A

5A—Validation of certain sewerage rates etc

        (1)         All sewerage rates levied and payable on land or premises or purporting to have been so levied and payable pursuant to this Act as in force before the commencement of the Sewerage Act Amendment Act 1970 , shall be deemed to be and always to have been as validly and effectually levied and payable as they would have been had the amendments effected to this Act by the Sewerage Act Amendment Act 1970 , come into operation on the first day of July, 1970.

        (2)         Any regulation made or purporting to have been made pursuant to powers conferred by this Act shall be deemed to be and always to have been as validly and effectually made as it would have been had the amendment effected to this Act by section 4 of the Sewerage Act Amendment Act 1970 , come into operation on the day upon which this Act came into operation.

        (3)         No rate declared in respect of any land within a drainage area, either before or after the enactment of this subsection, shall be held to be invalid on the ground that it differs from a rate declared in respect of any other land either in that same drainage area, or in some other drainage area.