New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (GENERAL) REGULATION 2005 - REG 42

42 Meaning of “operate a system of sewage management”

(1) In this Subdivision, "operate a system of sewage management" means hold or process, or re-use or otherwise dispose of, 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 subclause (1), "operate a system of sewage management" includes the following:

(a) use artificial wetlands, transpiration mounds, trenches, vegetation and the like in related effluent 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.