LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 68A
Meaning of "operate a system of sewage management"
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 68A
Meaning of "operate a system of sewage management"
68A Meaning of "operate a system of sewage management"
(1) In this Part,
"operate a system of sewage management" means hold or process, or re-use or
discharge, sewage or by-products of sewage (whether or not the sewage is
generated on the premises on which the system of sewage management is
operated).
(2) Without limiting subsection (1),
"operate a system of sewage management" includes the following--
(a) use
artificial wetlands, transpiration mounds, trenches, vegetation and other
effluent polishing, dispersal or re-use arrangements in related land
application areas,
(b) hold or process sewage that is to be subsequently
discharged into a public sewer.
(3) However,
"operate a system of sewage management" does not include any of the
following--
(a) any action relating to the discharge of sewage directly into a
public sewer,
(b) any action relating to sewage or by-products of sewage
after their discharge into a public sewer.
(4) In this section--
"public sewer" means a sewer operated by a council or county council, a water
supply authority (within the meaning of the Water Management Act 2000), a
State owned corporation specified in Schedule 1 or 5 to the State Owned
Corporations Act 1989 (or a subsidiary of such a corporation) or any other
public or local authority.
"related land application area" , in relation to a sewage management facility,
means the area of land (if any) where it is intended that effluent and
bio-solid waste from the facility will be re-used, applied or dispersed into
the environment.
"sewage" includes any effluent of the kind referred to in paragraph (a) of the
definition of
"waste" in the Dictionary to this Act.
"sewage management facility" means--
(a) a human waste storage facility, or
(b) a waste treatment device intended to process sewage,
and includes a drain
connected to such a facility or device.
