Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am	amended	LW	legislation website	Sch	Schedule
Cl	clause	No	number	Schs	Schedules
Cll	clauses	p	page	Sec	section
Div	Division	pp	pages	Secs	sections
Divs	Divisions	Reg	Regulation	Subdiv	Subdivision
GG	Government Gazette	Regs	Regulations	Subdivs	Subdivisions
Ins	inserted	Rep	repealed	Subst	substituted

Table of amending instruments

Drainage Act 1939 No 29. Assented to 7.11.1939. Date of commencement, 1.12.1939, sec 1 (2) and GG No 187 of 1.12.1939, p 5546. This Act has been amended as follows:

1940	No 41	Drainage (Amendment) Act 1940. Assented to 5.12.1940. Date of commencement of sec 2, 1.12.1939, sec 2 (2).
1952	No 53	Local Government (Further Amendment) Act 1952. Assented to 4.12.1952. Date of commencement, 1.1.1953, sec 1 (2) and GG No 272 of 19.12.1952, p 4601.
1965	No 33	Decimal Currency Act 1965. Assented to 20.12.1965. Date of commencement of sec 4, 14.2.1966, secs 1 (3), 2 (1) and the Currency Act 1965 (Commonwealth), sec 2 (2). Amended by regulation published in GG No 20 of 18.2.1966, p 822.
1972	No 48	Reprints Act 1972. Assented to 9.10.1972.
1973	No 9	District Court Act 1973. Assented to 10.4.1973. Date of commencement, 1.7.1973, sec 2 and GG No 75 of 8.6.1973, p 2158.
1975	No 72	Metric Conversion Act 1975. Assented to 6.11.1975. Date of commencement of Sch, Items 111, 112, 1.11.1976, sec 4 (3) and GG No 141 of 29.10.1976, p 4729.
1980	No 196	Miscellaneous Acts (Crown Land Titles) Amendment Act 1980. Assented to 22.12.1980. Date of commencement of Sch 1 (except as provided in sec 2 (4)–(6)), 1.10.1981, sec 2 (3) and GG No 141 of 25.9.1981, p 5107).
1983	No 153	Miscellaneous Acts (Public Finance and Audit) Repeal and Amendment Act 1983. Assented to 29.12.1983. Date of commencement of Sch 1, 6.1.1984, sec 2 (2) and GG No 4 of 6.1.1984, p 19.
1986	No 201	Drainage (Amendment) Act 1986. Assented to 18.12.1986. Date of commencement, 1.1.1987, sec 2 (2) and GG No 195 of 19.12.1986, p 6267.
1987	No 48	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 1) 1987. Assented to 28.5.1987. Date of commencement of Sch 32, 1.9.1987, sec 2 (12) and GG No 136 of 28.8.1987, p 4809.
1991	No 53	Hunter Water Board (Corporatisation) Act 1991. Assented to 11.12.1991. Date of commencement of Sch 1, 1.1.1992, sec 2 and GG No 180 of 20.12.1991, p 10554.
1992	No 112	Statute Law (Penalties) Act 1992. Assented to 8.12.1992. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
1994	No 88	Water Board (Corporatisation) Act 1994. Assented to 12.12.1994. Date of commencement of Sch 7, 1.1.1995, sec 2 and GG No 170 of 16.12.1994, p 7400.
1995	No 11	Statute Law Revision (Local Government) Act 1995. Assented to 9.6.1995. Date of commencement of the provisions of Sch 1 relating to the Drainage Act 1939, 23.6.1995, sec 2 (1) and GG No 77 of 23.6.1995, p 3279.
	No 99	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1995. Assented to 21.12.1995. Date of commencement of Sch 3, 3 months after assent, sec 2 (3). Amended by Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1996 No 30. Assented to 21.6.1996. Date of commencement of Sch 3, 3 months after assent, sec 2 (3).
1997	No 152	Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment Act 1997. Assented to 19.12.1997. Date of commencement, 1.7.1998, sec 2 and GG No 101 of 1.7.1998, p 5119.
1999	No 31	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1999. Assented to 7.7.1999. Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1).
	No 85	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1999. Assented to 3.12.1999. Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1).
	No 94	Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sentencing) Act 1999. Assented to 8.12.1999. Date of commencement of Sch 4.107, 1.1.2000, sec 2 (1) and GG No 144 of 24.12.1999, p 12184.

This Act has also been amended pursuant to an order under secs 8 (2) and 9 (3) of the Reprints Act 1972 No 48 (formerly Acts Reprinting Act 1972). Order dated 2.4.1974 and published in GG No 59 of 24.5.1974, p 1953, declaring that the Drainage Act 1939 is an enactment to which sec 8 (2) and sec 9 (3) of the Acts Reprinting Act 1972 apply.

Table of amendments

No reference is made to certain amendments made by the Decimal Currency Act 1965, the Reprints Act 1972, and Schedule 3 (amendments replacing gender-specific language) to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1995.

Sec 1	Am 1999 No 31, Sch 5.35.
Sec 2	Rep 1999 No 85, Sch 4.
Sec 4	Am 1980 No 196, Sch 1; 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (1); 1995 No 11, Sch 1.
Sec 5	Am 1991 No 53, Sch 1; 1994 No 88, Sch 7; 1995 No 11, Sch 1; 1997 No 152, Sch 4.9.
Sec 7	Am 1940 No 41, sec 2 (1) (a).
Secs 8–10	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2).
Sec 11	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2) (3).
Secs 12, 14	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2).
Sec 15	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (4).
Sec 16	Am 1999 No 94, Sch 4.107.
Sec 17	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2).
Sec 19	Am 1940 No 41, sec 3 (a).
Sec 23	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2).
Sec 24	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2) (5).
Sec 25	Am 1940 No 41, sec 2 (1) (b); 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2).
Sec 28	Am 1975 No 72, Sch; 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2).
Sec 29	Am 1999 No 31, Sch 4.28 [1] [2].
Sec 32	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2).
Sec 34	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (6).
Sec 35	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2).
Sec 36	Subst 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (7).
Secs 37, 39	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2).
Sec 43	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (8).
Sec 48	Am 1995 No 11, Sch 1.
Sec 54	Am 1965 No 33, First Sch (am GG No 20 of 18.2.1966, p 822).
Sec 55	Am 1952 No 53, sec 13 (4); 1995 No 11, Sch 1.
Sec 56	Am 1940 No 41, sec 3 (b).
Sec 58	Am 1940 No 41, sec 3 (c); 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2) (9).
Sec 69	Am 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2); 1995 No 11, Sch 1.
Sec 71	Am 1973 No 9, Sch 2.
Sec 73	Am 1940 No 41, sec 3 (d); 1986 No 201, Sch 1 (2).
Sec 74	Rep 1983 No 153, Sch 1.
Sec 75	Am 1992 No 112, Sch 1.
Sec 78	Am 1987 No 48, Sch 32.
Sec 79	Ins 1995 No 11, Sch 1.
Sch	Am 1992 No 112, Sch 1.
Sch 2	Ins 1995 No 11, Sch 1.