New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SYDNEY WATER CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT ACT 1998 - SECT 14

14 Objectives

(1) The principal objectives of the SCA are as follows:

(a) to ensure that the catchment areas and the catchment infrastructure works are managed and protected so as to promote water quality, the protection of public health and public safety, and the protection of the environment,

(b) to ensure that water supplied by it complies with appropriate standards of quality,

(c) where its activities affect the environment, to conduct its operations in compliance with the principles of ecologically sustainable development contained in section 6 (2) of the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991 ,

(d) to manage the SCA’s catchment infrastructure works efficiently and economically and in accordance with sound commercial principles.

(2) In implementing its principal objectives, the SCA has the following special objectives:

(a) to minimise risks to human health,

(b) to prevent the degradation of the environment.

(3) Nothing in this section gives rise to, or can be taken into account in, any civil cause of action.