New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SYDNEY WATER ACT 1994 - SECT 22

22 Implementation of principal objectives

(1) In implementing the principal objectives set out in section 21, the Corporation has the following special objectives:

(a) to reduce risks to human health,

(b) to prevent the degradation of the environment.

(2) Those special objectives are to be interpreted by reference to the objectives referred to in section 6 (1) (b) of the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991 , so far as they are relevant to the Corporation.

(3) In implementing those special objectives, regard is to be had to the means referred to in section 6 (1) (b) of the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991 , so far as they are relevant to the Corporation, and (in particular) to the following means:

(a) reducing the environmental impact of its discharges into or onto the air, water or land of substances likely to cause harm to the environment,

(b) minimising its creation of waste by the use of appropriate technology, practices and procedures,

(c) reducing its use of energy, water and other materials and substances,

(d) re-using and recovering energy, water and other materials and substances, used or discharged by it, by the use of appropriate technology, practices and procedures,

(e) reducing significantly, by 30 June 2000, the combined environmental impact of the per capita amount of energy and water used by the Corporation and other materials and substances discharged by the Corporation, compared with that impact in the year ending 30 June 1994.

(4) The Corporation is to have regard to the levels of energy that would be necessary to implement its special objectives and may adjust its implementation of those objectives if the levels of energy would be excessive.

(5) However, the Corporation is to have regard to its statutory functions, and may adjust its implementation of its special objectives but only if it is necessary in order to act responsibly.

(6) The Corporation must publish in the annual report on the Corporation’s performance prepared for the purposes of section 14 (1) (d) (i), a statement as to the implementation of its special objectives and annual adjustments made under subsections (4) and (5).

(7) The Environment Protection Authority must review the statement referred to in subsection (6) as soon as practicable after it is published and must, within 3 months after the publication date, make its evaluation of the statement available for public inspection. The evaluation is to include an opinion as to whether the best environmental outcome has been achieved.