This Act, consisting of 115 sections divided into seven Parts and three Schedules, provides for State Water Corporation to become Water NSW and to abolish the Sydney Catchment Authority and transfer its functions to Water NSW. The principal objectives of Water NSW are: (a) to capture, store and release water in an efficient, effective, safe and financially responsible manner, and (b) to supply water in compliance with appropriate standards of quality, and (c) to ensure that declared catchment areas and water management works in such areas are managed and protected so as to promote water quality, the protection of public health and public safety, and the protection of the environment, and (d) to provide for the planning, design, modelling and construction of water storage and other water management works, and (e) to maintain and operate the works of Water NSW efficiently and economically and in accordance with sound commercial principles. The other objectives of Water NSW are as follows: (a) to be a successful business and, to that end: (i) to operate at least as efficiently as any comparable business, and (ii) to maximise the net worth of the State’s investment in Water NSW, (b) to exhibit a sense of social responsibility by having regard to the interests of the community in which it operates, (c) to exhibit a sense of responsibility towards regional development and decentralisation in the way in which it operates, (d) where its activities affect the environment, to conduct its operations in compliance with the principles of ecologically sustainable development contained in section 6(2) of the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991. The Act is divided as follows: Preliminary (Part 1); Constitution and functions of Water NSW (Part 2); Powers of Water NSW (Part 3); Declared catchment areas and special and controlled areas (Part 4); Regulatory functions (Part 5); Compliance and enforcement (Part 6); Miscellaneous (Part 7).
Australie · 2014-11-11