New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HUNTER WATER ACT 1991 - SECT 16

16 Area covered by operating licence

(1) The operating licence applies to the area of operations specified in the operating licence, being the area of operations of Hunter Water Corporation Limited immediately before it ceased to be a company State owned corporation including:

(a) any parts of the Shire of Dungog specified in the operating licence at the date of the commencement of the operating licence, and

(b) any other land specified in the operating licence, not included in the above, in or on which works owned by the Corporation are installed or that is connected with a water main or sewer main owned by the Corporation at the date of the commencement of the operating licence, and

(c) any other land specified by the Governor by order for the purpose published in the Gazette.

(2) Despite subsection (1) (c), the area of operations must not be expanded to include the whole or part of the area within which:

(a) a council within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 , or

(b) a public authority within the meaning of the Water Management Act 2000 , or

(c) a water supply authority within the meaning of the Water Management Act 2000 ,

provides services that are the same services the Corporation is authorised to provide under the operating licence unless consultations, regarding the proposed expansion and its implications, have taken place between the Corporation and the council, public authority or Water Supply Authority before the order expanding the area of operations is made.