New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HUNTER WATER ACT 1991 - SECT 39

39 Operating licence may specify basis for fixing contract charges, availability charges, environmental levies and rates

(1) The operating licence may provide that the Corporation must in fixing:

(a) contract charges under customer contracts, and

(b) availability charges under section 43, and

(c) environmental levies under section 45, and

(d) rates under section 46,

do so on a basis that is consistent with the system employed by the Hunter Water Board for fixing service charges immediately before the transfer of the business undertaking or on some other basis stipulated in the operating licence.

(2) Unless the operating licence otherwise provides, nothing in this section affects the power of the Corporation to fix charges, levies and rates for the purposes referred to in subsection (1) or to impose fees or charges for any service or thing supplied or provided by the Corporation in furnishing the services referred to in section 12 (1).