SYDNEY WATER ACT 1994 - As at 1 March 2024 - Act 88 of 1994 - NOTES
SYDNEY WATER ACT 1994 - As at 1 March 2024 - Act 88 of 1994 - NOTES
Water Board (Corporatisation) Act 1994
Does not include amendments by--
Water Management Act 2000 No 92, Sch 8.27 [5[#93] [7[#93] and [8[#93] (amended by Water Management Amendment Act 2002 No 138) (not commenced)
Reprint history--
Reprint No 1 7 July 1997
Reprint No 2 20 January 1999
Reprint No 3 7 August 2001
Reprint No 4 19 October 2004
Reprint No 5 26 October 2010
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| Ins | inserted | Rep | repealed | Subst | substituted |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
Sydney Water Act 1994 No 88 (formerly Water Board (Corporatisation) Act 1994). Assented to 12.12.1994. Date of commencement of Parts 1, 3, 4 and 5 and sec 54, 19.12.1994, sec 2 and GG No 170 of 16.12.1994, p 7400; date of commencement of remainder, 1.1.1995, sec 2 and GG No 170 of 16.12.1994, p 7400. This Act has been amended as follows--| 1995 | No 16 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act
1995. Assented to 15.6.1995. Date of commencement of Sch 2.28, assent, Sch 2. |
| No 27 | Evidence (Consequential and
Other
Provisions) Act 1995. Assented to 19.6.1995. Date of commencement, 1.9.1995, sec 2 and GG No 102 of 25.8.1995, p 4355. | |
| No 32 | State Owned Corporations Amendment Act
1995. Assented to 23.6.1995. Date of commencement, 1.7.1995, sec 2 and GG No 79 of 30.6.1995, p 3437. | |
| 1996 | No 122 | Building Services Corporation Legislation Amendment
Act
1996. Assented to 3.12.1996. Date of commencement, 1.5.1997, sec 2 and GG No 43 of 24.4.1997, p 2171. |
| 1997 | No 55 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act
1997. Assented to 2.7.1997. Date of commencement of Sch 1.30, 1.7.1997, Sch 1.30. |
| No 128 | Water Legislation Amendment Act
1997. Assented to 16.12.1997. Date of commencement of Sch 2.5, 1.11.2000, sec 2 and GG No 139 of 20.10.2000, p 11188. | |
| 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. | |
| No 156 | Protection of the
Environment
Operations Act 1997. Assented to 19.12.1997. Date of commencement, 1.7.1999, sec 2 and GG No 178 of 24.12.1998, p 9952. | |
| 1998 | No 11 | Co-operative Housing and
Starr-Bowkett
Societies Act 1998. Assented to 15.5.1998. Date of commencement of Sch 6.23, 1.9.2000, sec 2 and GG No 112 of 1.9.2000, p 8633. |
| No 138 | Heritage Amendment Act 1998. Assented to 8.12.1998. Date of commencement, 2.4.1999, sec 2 and GG No 27 of 5.3.1999, p 1546. | |
| No 145 | Water Legislation Amendment (Drinking Water and
Corporate
Structure) Act 1998. Assented to 8.12.1998. Date of commencement, 1.1.1999, sec 2 and GG No 176 of 18.12.1998, p 9726. | |
| No 162 | Consumer Claims
Act
1998. Assented to 14.12.1998. Date of commencement, 1.3.1999, sec 2 and GG No 25 of 26.2.1999, p 971. | |
| No 171 | Sydney Water Catchment
Management Act
1998. Assented to 14.12.1998. Date of commencement of Sch 4, 2.7.1999, sec 2 and GG No 76 of 2.7.1999, p 4608. | |
| 1999 | No 85 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act (No 2) 1999. Assented to 3.12.1999. Date of commencement of Sch 2.66, assent, sec 2 (2); 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 4.164, 1.1.2000, sec 2 (1) and GG No 144 of 24.12.1999, p 12184. | |
| 2000 | No 60 | Independent Pricing and
Regulatory
Tribunal and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2000. Assented to 5.7.2000. Date of commencement of Sch 1, 1.11.2000, sec 2 and GG No 141 of 27.10.2000, p 11289. Amended by Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2000 No 93. Assented to 8.12.2000. Date of commencement of Sch 2.23, assent, sec 2 (2). |
| No 92 | Water Management
Act
2000. Assented to 8.12.2000. Date of commencement of Sch 8.27 [1[#93]-[4[#93], 1.1.2001, sec 2 and GG No 168 of 22.12.2000, p 13471; date of commencement of Sch 8.27 [5[#93] [7[#93] and [8[#93]: not in force; the amendment made by Sch 8.27 [6[#93] was without effect as the section being amended was repealed by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2000 No 60. | |
| 2001 | No 34 | Corporations
(Consequential
Amendments) Act 2001. Assented to 28.6.2001. Date of commencement of Sch 4.64, 15.7.2001, sec 2 (1) and Commonwealth Gazette No S 285 of 13.7.2001. |
| No 56 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act 2001. Assented to 17.7.2001. Date of commencement of Sch 1.19, assent, sec 2 (2). | |
| No 82 | Consumer, Trader and Tenancy
Tribunal
Act 2001. Assented to 21.11.2001. Date of commencement of Sch 7.21, 25.2.2002, sec 2 (1) and GG No 48 of 22.2.2002, p 901. | |
| No 118 | Aboriginal Land Rights
Amendment Act
2001. Assented to 19.12.2001. Date of commencement, 25.10.2002, sec 2 and GG No 189 of 25.10.2002, p 9059. | |
| 2003 | No 40 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act 2003. Assented to 22.7.2003. Date of commencement of Sch 1.51, assent, sec 2 (2). |
| No 55 | Sydney Water Amendment
(Water
Restrictions) Act 2003. Assented to 29.10.2003. Date of commencement, 1.11.2003, sec 2 and GG No 176 of 31.10.2003, p 10367. | |
| 2004 | No 101 | Home Building Amendment
Act
2004. Assented to 15.12.2004. Date of commencement of Sch 9.8, 29.4.2005, sec 2 and GG No 50 of 29.4.2005, p 1530. |
| 2005 | No 85 | Public Sector Employment
and
Management Amendment (Extended Leave) Act 2005. Assented to 17.11.2005. Date of commencement, 1.1.2006, sec 2 and GG No 164 of 23.12.2005, p 11224. |
| 2006 | No 104 | Water Industry Competition
Act
2006. Assented to 27.11.2006. Date of commencement, 8.8.2008, sec 2 and GG No 95 of 8.8.2008, p 7438. |
| No 120 | Statute Law
(Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act (No 2) 2006. Assented to 4.12.2006. Date of commencement of Sch 1, assent, sec 2 (2). | |
| 2007 | No 94 | Miscellaneous Acts (Local
Court)
Amendment Act 2007. Assented to 13.12.2007. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 6.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (314) LW 3.7.2009. |
| 2009 | No 7 | Associations Incorporation
Act
2009. Assented to 7.4.2009. Date of commencement, 1.7.2010, sec 2 and 2010 (237) LW 11.6.2010. |
| No 17 | Real Property and
Conveyancing
Legislation Amendment Act 2009. Assented to 13.5.2009. Date of commencement of Sch 3, assent, sec 2 (1). | |
| No 54 | Government Information (Public
Access)
(Consequential Amendments and Repeal) Act 2009. Assented to 26.6.2009. Date of commencement, 1.7.2010, sec 2 and 2010 (248) LW 18.6.2010. | |
| No 56 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act 2009. Assented to 1.7.2009. Date of commencement of Sch 4, 17.7.2009, sec 2 (1). | |
| 2010 | No 42 | Residential Tenancies
Act
2010. Assented to 17.6.2010. Date of commencement, 31.1.2011, sec 2 and 2010 (658) LW 3.12.2010. |
| No 127 | Public Health
Act
2010. Assented to 7.12.2010. Date of commencement of Sch 4, 1.9.2012, sec 2 and 2012 (275) LW 29.6.2012. | |
| 2011 | No 59 | Plumbing and Drainage
Act
2011. Assented to 16.11.2011. Date of commencement, 1.7.2012, sec 2 and 2012 (298) LW 29.6.2012. |
| No 62 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act (No 2) 2011. Assented to 16.11.2011. Date of commencement of Sch 2.38, 6.1.2012, sec 2 (1). | |
| 2013 | No 95 | Civil and Administrative
Legislation
(Repeal and Amendment) Act 2013. Assented to 20.11.2013. Date of commencement, 1.1.2014, sec 2. |
| 2014 | No 74 | Water NSW Act
2014. Assented to 11.11.2014. Date of commencement, 1.1.2015, sec 2 and 2014 (839) LW 19.12.2014. |
| No 88 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act (No 2) 2014. Assented to 28.11.2014. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 8.1.2015, sec 2 (1). | |
| 2015 | No 12 | Fair Trading Legislation (Repeal
and
Amendment) Act 2015. Assented to 29.6.2015. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 1.10.2015, sec 2 (2) and 2015 (442) LW 31.7.2015. |
| 2016 | No 55 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act (No 2) 2016. Assented to 25.10.2016. Date of commencement of Sch 1.32, 6.1.2017, sec 2 (1). |
| 2017 | No 17 | Crown Land Legislation Amendment
Act
2017. Assented to 17.5.2017. Date of commencement of Sch 4, 1.7.2018, sec 2 (1) and 2018 (225) LW 1.6.2018. |
| No 22 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act 2017. Assented to 1.6.2017. Date of commencement of Sch 3, 7.7.2017, sec 2 (3). | |
| No 63 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act (No 2) 2017. Assented to 23.11.2018. Date of commencement of Sch 4.52, 14.1.2018, sec 2 (3). | |
| 2018 | No 25 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act 2018. Assented to 15.6.2018. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 1.8.2018, sec 2 (3). |
| No 70 | Government Sector Finance
Legislation
(Repeal and Amendment) Act 2018. Assented to 22.11.2018. Date of commencement of Sch 4.101, 1.7.2021, sec 2(1) and 2021 (305) LW 25.6.2021. | |
| 2019 | No 1 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act 2019. Assented to 17.6.2019. Date of commencement of Sch 1.22, 14 days after assent, sec 2 (1). |
| 2021 | No 26 | Water Industry Competition Amendment Act
2021. Assented to 1.11.2021. Date of commencement of Sch 2.14, 1.3.2024, sec 2 and 2024 (43) LW 1.3.2024. |
Table of amendments
| Sec 1 | Am 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [1[#93]. |
| Sec 3 | Am 1998 No 11, Sch 6.23; 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [2[#93]-[4[#93]; 1998 No 171, Sch 4 [1[#93]; 2000 No 60, Sch 1.5 [1[#93]; 2000 No 92, Sch 8.27 [1[#93]; 2001 No 34, Sch 4.64 [1[#93]; 2009 No 7, Sch 3.14; 2014 No 88, Sch 2.65 [1[#93] [2[#93]; 2017 No 17, Sch 4.94. |
| Sec 3A | Ins 1998 No 171, Sch 4 [2[#93]. Rep 2014 No 74, Sch 3.37. |
| Part 2 | Subst 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [5[#93]. |
| Secs 4, 5 | Subst 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [5[#93]. |
| Sec 5A | Ins 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [5[#93]. |
| Sec 6 | Subst 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [5[#93]. Am 2000 No 92, Sch 8.27 [2[#93]; 2010 No 127, Sch 4.22. |
| Sec 7 | Am 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [6[#93] [7[#93]. |
| Secs 8, 9 | Am 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [6[#93]. |
| Sec 10 | Am 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [8[#93] [9[#93]; 2000 No 92, Sch 8.27 [3[#93] [4[#93]; 2011 No 62, Sch 2.38 [1[#93]. |
| Sec 12 | Am 1997 No 128, Sch 2.5. |
| Sec 13 | Rep 2001 No 56, Sch 1.19 [1[#93]. |
| Sec 16 | Am 1998 No 171, Sch 4 [3[#93]. |
| Sec 19A | Ins 2000 No 60, Sch 1.5 [2[#93] (am 2000 No 93, Sch 2.23 [8[#93]-[10[#93]). |
| Sec 19B | Ins 2000 No 60, Sch 1.5 [2[#93]. Am 2013 No 95, Sch 2.139 [1[#93] [2[#93]. |
| Sec 20 | Am 1999 No 94, Sch 4.164; 2001 No 34, Sch 4.64 [2[#93]. |
| Sec 27 | Am 2018 No 25, Sch 2.34 [1[#93]. |
| Part 6, Div 1A, heading | Ins 2000 No 60, Sch 1.5 [3[#93]. |
| Sec 28 | Rep 1997 No 156, Sch 4.20. Ins 2000 No 60, Sch 1.5 [3[#93]. |
| Part 6, Div 2, heading | Am 2000 No 60, Sch 1.5 [4[#93]. |
| Sec 29 | Rep 2000 No 60, Sch 1.5 [5[#93]. |
| Sec 30 | Rep 2000 No 60, Sch 1.5 [6[#93]. |
| Sec 31 | Am 2000 No 60, Sch 1.5 [7[#93]-[10[#93]. |
| Sec 32 | Am 2000 No 60, Sch 1.5 [11[#93]. |
| Sec 33A | Ins 2000 No 60, Sch 1.5 [12[#93]. |
| Sec 36 | Am 2018 No 25, Sch 2.34 [2[#93] [3[#93]. |
| Sec 37 | Am 2009 No 17, Sch 3.17 [1[#93]. |
| Sec 44 | Am 2009 No 17, Sch 3.17 [2[#93]; 2010 No 42, Sch 3.18. |
| Sec 46 | Am 1998 No 138, Sch 2.10 [1[#93] [2[#93]. |
| Sec 46A | Ins 1998 No 171, Sch 4 [4[#93]. |
| Sec 48 | Am 2003 No 55, Sch 1 [1[#93]. |
| Sec 48A | Ins 2011 No 59, Sch 2.12 [1[#93]. |
| Sec 50 | Subst 2017 No 22, Sch 3.77. |
| Sec 53 | Am 1999 No 85, Sch 2.66; 2003 No 55, Sch 1 [2[#93] [3[#93]; 2007 No 94, Sch 2. |
| Part 6, Div 6A (secs 53A-53D) | Ins 2003 No 55, Sch 1 [4[#93]. |
| Sec 54 | Am 2001 No 56, Sch 1.19 [2[#93]; 2003 No 40, Sch 1.51 [1[#93] [2[#93]. |
| Sec 55 | Am 2001 No 56, Sch 1.19 [3[#93] [4[#93]; 2006 No 104, Sch 3.9; 2021 No 26, Sch 2.14[1[#93] [2[#93]. |
| Sec 58 | Am 1998 No 162, Sch 2.7 [1[#93] [2[#93]; 2001 No 82, Sch 7.21; 2013 No 95, Sch 4.43; 2015 No 12, Sch 2.5 [1[#93] [2[#93]. |
| Sec 59 | Am 2001 No 56, Sch 1.19 [5[#93] [6[#93]; 2003 No 40, Sch 1.51 [3[#93]-[6[#93]. |
| Sec 60 | Am 2001 No 56, Sch 1.19 [7[#93]. |
| Sec 62 | Am 2001 No 56, Sch 1.19 [8[#93]. |
| Sec 64 | Am 2009 No 17, Sch 3.17 [3[#93]. |
| Sec 65 | Am 2009 No 17, Sch 3.17 [4[#93]; 2011 No 62, Sch 2.38 [2[#93]. |
| Sec 67 | Am 2009 No 56, Sch 4.73. |
| Sec 69 | Am 1997 No 152, Sch 4.45. |
| Sec 74 | Am 2001 No 56, Sch 1.19 [9[#93]. |
| Sec 78 | Am 1998 No 171, Sch 4 [5[#93] [6[#93]. |
| Part 6, Div 10 (secs 80-87) | Rep 1998 No 171, Sch 4 [7[#93]. |
| Sec 88 | Am 2011 No 62, Sch 2.38 [1[#93]. |
| Sec 93 | Rep 2001 No 56, Sch 1.19 [10[#93]. |
| Sec 93A | Ins 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [10[#93]. |
| Sec 94 | Rep 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [11[#93]. |
| Sec 95 | Am 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [12[#93]. |
| Sec 96 | Am 2005 No 85, Sch 2.7 [1[#93] [2[#93]. |
| Sec 97 | Rep 2018 No 70, Sch 4.101[1[#93]. |
| Sec 99 | Am 1996 No 122, Sch 7.18; 2004 No 101, Sch 9.8; 2011 No 59, Sch 2.12 [2[#93]. |
| Sec 100 | Am 2018 No 25, Sch 2.34 [4[#93]. |
| Sec 101 | Am 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [13[#93] [14[#93]. |
| Sec 104 | Am 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [15[#93]. Rep 2009 No 54, Sch 2.50. |
| Sec 106 | Am 2006 No 120, Sch 1.32; 2011 No 59, Sch 2.12 [3[#93]. |
| Secs 108-110 | Rep 1999 No 85, Sch 4. |
| Sch 1 | Am 1999 No 94, Sch 4.164. Rep 2000 No 60, Sch 1.5 [13[#93]. |
| Sch 2 | Am 2001 No 118, Sch 2.11; 2017 No 63, Sch 4.52; 2018 No 70, Sch 4.101[2[#93]. |
| Sch 3 | Am 1995 No 32, Sch 3.5; 1997 No 55, Sch 1.30 [1[#93] [2[#93]. Rep 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [16[#93]. |
| Sch 4 | Subst 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [17[#93]. |
| Sch 5 | Am 2016 No 55, Sch 1.32; 2019 No 1, Sch 1.22 [1[#93] [2[#93]. |
| Schs 6-8 | Rep 1999 No 85, Sch 4. |
| Sch 9 | Am 1995 No 16, Sch 2.28; 1995 No 27, Sch 1.30; 1998 No 145, Sch 3 [18[#93]-[21[#93]; 1998 No 171, Sch 4 [8[#93]-[10[#93]. |