Notice made under the Water Research Act on rates and charges for purposes of the Water Research Fund (No. 359 of 2007)

STAATSKOERANT, 26 APRIL 2007 No 29817 1 1 DEPARTMENT OF WATER AFFAIRS AND FORESTRY DEPARTEMENT VAN WATERWESE EN BOSBOU No. 359 26 April 2007 WATER RESEARCH FUND - RATES AND CHARGES 1. I, Lindiwe Benedicta in my capacity as Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, hereby levy, in terms of the authority vested in me by section 11 of the Water Research Act, 1971 (Act No. 34 of the following rates and charges: (a) Three hundred and sixty eight cents in respect of each hectare of land of which the water use is permissible during the 200712008 water year terms section of the National Water Act, 1998 (Act No. 36 of or respect of which an allocation has been made under Chapter 4 of the said National Water Act for the thereof at any time during the said water year, with water supplied or made available from water work. These rates and charges shall be recovered by or on the instructions of the Director-General: Affairs and Forestry, simultaneously with any other charge which I may make in respect of the land concerned during the said period in terms of section 57 of the said National Water Act or, if no such charge is made, the charge shall he payable upon demand to the Director-General: Water Affairs and Forestry. (b) The amount mentioned in 1 (a) above shall apply in respect of each hectare of land permitted under the control of an irrigation board or other water management institution established in terms of the said Water Act for the irrigation of land at time during the financial year of such board or water or available from a government water work or a work to such board or This be recovered by the irrigation board or statutory body and shall be remitted to the General: Water Affairs and Forestry within thirty (30) days of the close of the financial year of that irrigation board or statutory body. (c) With effect from 1 July 2007, three comma five seven cents per cubic meter in of metered water supplied or from a government work fo: purposes irrigation Provided that if a free a from a water apply to that allocation as it be deemed to be water from own by the charges shall by the Director-General: Water Affairs and Forestry, simultaneously with any charge which I may in terms of section 57 of the said National Water Act in respect of the supply of water as from the said date or shall be payable to him upon demand. Hendricks, 22( I)( a)(ii) irrigation Water any 1971), (368c) any government National with suppi1 ~ct 2007/2008 ffade belonging institution. concerned chr,rge shall in of 1998), m instituticn water Director (3,57c) req:c"Ct made :.vailable water other tha.,. the of !and: aL:-cation h:;,s been made :c specific consumer g overrur.e 11t sha1.l th-:: sai,:: char;e snall not sur..,tJiied his sou:ces consumer conci::rned. T11ese recovered make work, be 29817 GOVERNMENT APRIL meter in respect of the quantity of or available for use for or domestic by a body or management establish-d in of the National Act by water instituticn as in of Act, No. 108 of 1997): Provided that there shall be deducted from the total quantity of water supplied or made available 1 July 2007 by any one of the abovementioned suppliers the quantity of water supplied or made available from a government water work as contemplated in paragraph and the quantity of water obtained from any of the abovementioned suppliers after that date in respect of which the charge referred to in paragraph or (d) has already been paid. The total amount payable in terms of this paragraph in respect of water supplied or made available shall be by supplier so as to reach the Director-General: Water Affairs and Forestry, Bag 13, Pretoria, 0001, or such other offices be agreed upon, as follows: (aa) respect of the period 1 to 1 December of on or before 1 of the ensuing year; and (bb) In respect of the period 1 January to 30 June of each year, on or before 30 September of the same year. The audited statements prescribed in terms of section of the said Water Research shall be submitted as soon as possible after the payments mentioned in paragraph have been made. 2. If such rates and charges remain wholly or partly unpaid after the due date, interest shall be charged in of section of the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act No. 1 of 1999) on the outstanding amount at a rate determined from time to time by the Minister of Finance, on loans granted out of a Revenue Fund. 3. For the purpose of this notice; one cubic meter shall be equal to one L.B. Minister of Water Affairs and (d) With e7fect frcm 1 July 2007, tbree co·nma ,S.,,-e S3V~'1 cer;:~s (3,57c) pe:- cubi::: Act l(d) v-•ater S'lpplied :1iade u~·ban, in~ustrial institution services purposes L'.ffi1S ~; -- ''.l defined t-·rr:is after r:::mitted the as 111a.y In July 3 3 March terms 80(1)(a) r't,:y'C. " HENDRICKS--------~ Forestry statmorY wa1er ., ~v/2ter Jr 6e \Vater Services l(c) 1 (c) concerned, Frivate X3 ea;:h year, l 1(3)(b) my otr:er !997 (Act kiloliter.