A DEFECTIVE ACT.
■ Dr - in MVKING AND LEVYING WATER at .RATES. at.' , of (Bt Telosra-ph—Press Association.) »i Dunedln, August 28. rd, Mr;-Justice Williams ha 3 eiven' judgf l ' '-mc'irt in the case John Soutcr v. the Xlosgiel Borough Council, which was brought for the purpose of Settling tho question of making and levying water rates on the unimproved value. In tho course of his judgment, his Honour said, "I think tho Legislature, by the Act of 1911, has expressly enacted that water on rates, whicli-wore theretofore leviable on he the capital or annual value, shall thereJ, r . after not be so levied, but shall be leviij]l able on the unimproved value, The diflT ficulty is that the draughtsman, so .far its as I oan see, has unfortunately omitted on to provide the nccessarv machinery for enabling th»rilte to b« lovied inaccord- ■ ance with tho enactmont, and there is : 110 other wn.v of levying it. It is boyond .. the power of this Court to provide the ,]t' machinery. That-rests only with the ni Legislature. .'The plaintiff.is entitled to an injunction." . . •
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1841, 29 August 1913, Page 8
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179A DEFECTIVE ACT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1841, 29 August 1913, Page 8
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