1 Name of Act
2 Commencement
3 Definitions
3A Sydney Water Catchment Management Act 1998
Part 2 Sydney Water Corporation
4 Establishment of Corporation as a statutory SOC
5 Functions of Corporation
5A Board of Corporation
6 Role of certain Ministers
Part 3 Transfer of assets, rights and liabilities
7 Direction to transfer business undertaking
8 Excluded undertakings
9 Transfer of other assets, rights or liabilities
10 Area of operations
11 Facilitating provisions of orders
12 Grant of operating licences
13 (Repealed)
14 Terms and conditions of operating licences
15 Customer Councils
16 Amendment of operating licences
17 Term of operating licences
18 Area covered by operating licences
19 Contravention of operating licences
19A Enforcement of operating licences: action by Tribunal
19B Review of certain decisions of Tribunal concerning operating licences
20 Cancellation of operating licences
Part 6 Provisions relating to the Corporation
Division 1 Objectives of Corporation
21 Objectives of Corporation
22 Implementation of principal objectives
23 Pollution reduction targets
24 Approval of methodology for ecological risk assessment
25 Public display of reports on ecological risk assessments
26 Amendment of pollution reduction targets
27 Re-use of sewage effluent
Division 1A Regulatory functions of Tribunal
28 Regulatory functions of Tribunal
Division 2 Licence auditing functions of Tribunal
29, 30 (Repealed)
31 Functions of Tribunal
32 Operational report
33 Presentation of report to Parliament
33A Cost of audit
Division 3 Memoranda of understanding
34 Definitions
35 Corporation to enter into memoranda of understanding
36 Public exhibition of memoranda of understanding
Division 4 Provisions relating to works
37 Ownership of works
38 Entry on to land
39 Certificates of authority
40 Exercise of powers of entry
41 Compensation
42 Power to open roads
43 Altering position of conduit
44 Protection of works
45 Compensation to Corporation for damage
46 Interference with works by trees
46A Approval of infrastructure activities in area of operations
Division 5 Acquisition of land
47 Acquisition of land for purposes of this Act
48 Illegal diversion of water
48A Unauthorised connections, alterations and use of works
49 Offence to discharge into works
50 Penalty notices
51 Payment of penalty does not affect other proceedings
52 Persons causing offences
53 Disposal of proceedings for offences
Division 6A Special provisions relating to water restriction offences
53A Definitions
53B Liability for water restriction offences in certain circumstances
53C Evidentiary provision
53D Power of authorised persons to enter land to investigate water restriction offences
54 Publication of terms and conditions of customer contracts
55 Owner of land taken to have entered into customer contract
56 No customer contract for unauthorised connection
57 Division not to apply to certain contracts
58 Consumer claims
59 Variation of customer contracts
60 Fees and charges generally
61 Successor in title liable for unpaid contract charges
62 Occupier may pay, and recover, contract charges in certain cases
63 Fees and charges not to be charges on land
64 Availability charges
65 Stormwater drainage area charges
66 Certificates as to amounts due
67 Exemptions from service charges
68 Special arrangements with Valuer-General
69 Definitions
70 Compliance certificates
71 Conditions requiring compliance certificates
72 Applications for compliance certificates
73 Grant of compliance certificates
74 Notice of requirements before grant of compliance certificate
75 Relevant costs
76 Conditions of compliance certificates
77 Grant of compliance certificates in stages
78 Consent authority to notify Corporation of development and building applications
79 Enforcement
80–87(Repealed)
88 Controlled areas
89 Regulations concerning controlled areas
Division 12 Activities outside area of operations
90 Activities outside area of operations
91 Contracting out
92 Alteration of names
93 (Repealed)
93A Ministerial directions in the public interest
94 (Repealed)
95 Provisions relating to subsidiaries
96 Provisions relating to certain staff
97 Special audit of activities
98 Act binds Crown
99 Work for water supply, sewerage or stormwater drainage
100 Service of notices
101 Annual reports and consumer confidence reports
102 Restraint of breaches of Act
103 Restraint of breaches of customer contract
104 (Repealed)
105 Application of Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 1988
106 Regulations
107 Repeals
108–110 (Repealed)
111 Savings, transitional and other provisions
112 Review of Act
Schedule 2 Exemptions from service charges
Schedule 4 Subsidiaries of Corporation
Schedule 5 Annual report of Corporation
Schedule 9 Savings, transitional and other provisions