New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER INDUSTRY COMPETITION (ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES) REGULATION 2007 - REG 5

5 Coverage applications: section 25

(1) For the purposes of section 25 (1) (b) of the Act, the following persons are prescribed as persons from whom submissions are to be invited in relation to a coverage application for an infrastructure service:

(a) the service provider for the service, except where the application has been made by the service provider,

(b) the Minister administering the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 ,

(c) the Minister administering the Public Health Act 1991 ,

(d) the Minister administering Part 3 of the Water Industry Competition Act 2006 and, if a different Minister administers Part 2 of that Act, that Minister also,

(e) the Minister administering the Water Management Act 2000 .

(2) When inviting submissions from the persons referred to in subclause (1), IPART must notify them of:

(a) the date on which the application was made, and

(b) the date (4 months later) by which IPART must endeavour to furnish a report on the application to the Minister, as referred to in section 25 (4) of the Act.

Note: An application will not have been made until it has been lodged in duly completed form (as to which, see clause 4).

(3) If at any time it appears to IPART that it will not be practicable for its report on the application to be provided to the Minister:

(a) by the date notified under subclause (2) (b), or

(b) if a later date has been notified under this subclause, by that later date,

IPART must notify the applicant, and the persons referred to in subclause (1), of the date by which IPART now expects the report to be provided.