Western Australian Consolidated Acts

SOIL AND LAND CONSERVATION ACT 1945 - SECT 25AA

25AA .         Use of money raised by service charge

        (1)         A service charge is only to be imposed for a soil conservation purpose specified in the notice under section 25A(1a) ( the specified service ).

        (2)         Subject to section 25B(8), a district committee may only use the money raised from a service charge to meet the cost of providing the specified service.

        (3)         If a district committee raises more money from a service charge than it requires for the specified service it shall refund to the owner of land on which the charge was imposed an amount that bears to the service charge paid the same proportion as the amount expended on the specified service bears to the total of the moneys raised by the district committee from the service charge.

        [Section 25AA inserted by No. 4 of 1999 s. 8.]