New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE WATER CORPORATION ACT 2004 - SECT 22A

22A Metering equipment functions

(1) Conferral of functions The Corporation may, if the operating licence so provides, operate, replace, repair, maintain, remove, connect, disconnect or modify metering equipment that the Corporation does not own.

(2) The Corporation may from time to time test any metering equipment that it owns or any other metering equipment in respect of which it exercises functions under this section.

(3) The regulations may provide that the Corporation is, or is not, to exercise any of its functions with respect to the operation, replacement, repair, maintenance, removal, connection, disconnection or modification of metering equipment under section 21 or this section to the exclusion of any other person and may limit the exercise of any of those functions to:

(a) specified water sources or classes of water sources, or

(b) a specified area, or

(c) specified access licences or approvals or classes of access licences or approvals for specified areas, or

(d) specified works or classes of works.

(4) Operation of sections The functions conferred by section 21 and this section in respect of metering equipment are in addition to any functions conferred on the Corporation under the Water Management Act 2000 or the Water Act 1912 in relation to water management works or other works.

(5) The conferral of functions by section 21 and this section in respect of metering equipment, and any regulations under this section, have effect despite any other provision of the Water Management Act 2000 or the Water Act 1912 .

(6) A direction under section 326 of the Water Management Act 2000 , or a condition of an access licence or approval under that Act, ceases to have effect during any period that the exercise of a function is conferred exclusively on the Corporation by or under section 21 or this section, if the direction or condition requires the exercise of, or relates to the exercise of, that function.

(7) Subsections (5) and (6) do not apply to a direction given to the Corporation or an access licence or approval held by the Corporation.

(8) Subsection (6) does not affect the operation of, or enforcement of, a direction under section 326 or a condition of an access licence or approval in relation to any period before the direction or condition ceased to have effect.

(9) In this section, a reference to an access licence or approval includes a reference to an entitlement (within the meaning of clause 2 of Schedule 10 to the Water Management Act 2000 ) that confers a corresponding authority.