WATER SUPPLY AND SEWERAGE SERVICES ACT

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WATER SUPPLY AND SEWERAGE SERVICES ACT

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Long Title

Part 1 Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Objects
4. Definitions
5. Crown to be bound
Part 2 Licensing water supply and sewerage services
Division 1 Functions of Utilities Commission
6. Functions of Utilities Commission
Division 2 Declaration as regulated industries
7. Declaration as regulated industries
Division 3 Water supply and sewerage services licence areas
8. Declaration as water supply licence area
9. Declaration as sewerage services licence area
10. Application to have area declared a water supply or sewerage services licence area
11. Variation of water supply licence area or sewerage services licence area
12. Application to have variation of water supply licence area or sewerage services licence area
Division 4 Licences in water supply and sewerage services
13. Restriction on number of licences
14. Requirement for licence
15. Application for licence
16. Consideration of application
17. Licences may be held jointly
18. Term of licence
19. Licence fees and returns
20. Variation of licence
21. Transfer of licence
22. Notice of licence decisions
23. Surrender of licence
24. Suspension or cancellation of licence
25. Register of licences
Division 5 Exemptions
26. Power of exemption
27. Obligation to comply with conditions of exemption
28. Register of exemptions
Division 6 Reviews and appeals
29. Review of decisions by Utilities Commission
30. Appeal
31. Minister's power to intervene
Division 7 Utilities Commission's powers to take over operations
32. Power to take over operations
33. Appointment of operator
Division 8 Utilities Commission's powers to assess compliance
34. Power to assess compliance
35. Appointment of authorised officers
36. Conditions of appointment
37. Authorised officer's identity card
38. Production of identity card
39. Power of entry and investigative powers of authorised officers
40. Power to require information
Part 3 Duties and powers of licensee
Division 1 Authority and duties conferred by licence
41. Authority and duty to supply
Division 2 Conditions of licences
42. Licence conditions
43. Offence to contravene licence conditions
44. Limitation on obligation to provide services
Division 3 Standards of service to customers
45. Minimum standards of service to customers
46. Quality of drinking water
47. Customer contract
48. Asset management plans
Division 4 Monitoring and information
49. Licensee to monitor compliance
50. Compliance reports to be provided
Division 5 Infrastructure development
51. Service plans
52. Code for connections, upgrade of connections and increased loads on licensee's infrastructure
53. Application for water supply
54. Application for sewerage service
Division 6 Services officers
55. Appointment of services officers
56. Conditions of appointment
57. Services officer's identity card
58. Production of identity card
Division 7 Power of licensee to charge
59. Rights to charge
Division 8 Pricing orders and financial contributions
60. Pricing orders for water supply and sewerage services
61. Water supply and sewerage services extension areas
Division 9 Powers of licensees to carry out works
62. Notice of operations and entry for new works
63. Power to carry out work on public land
Division 10 Powers relating to infrastructure
64. Easements
65. Entry for purposes related to infrastructure
66. Entry to inspect, etc., water and sewerage services installations
67. Entry to disconnect service
68. Disconnection of service if entry refused
69. Direction to repair house drain
70. Trees and shrubs
Division 11 Metering
71. Meters
72. Metering code
73. Portable meter
74. Access to meter
75. Power to assess consumption
76. Disputed consumption
77. Entry to read meters, etc.
78. Installation of meter
Division 12 Powers and duties in emergencies
79. Licensee may cut off water supply and sewerage services to avert danger
80. Water supply or sewerage services restrictions
81. Emergency legislation not affected
Part 4 Trade waste and prohibited discharge
Division 1 Trade waste
82. Approval required to discharge trade waste
83. Trade waste code
84. Licensee may impose conditions
85. Suspension or cancellation of approval
86. Maintenance and repair of sewer
87. Recovery of costs
Division 2 Prohibited discharge
88. Prohibited discharge
Part 5 Offences
89. Change of customer account details
90. Tampering or wilful damage to property of licensee
91. Connections to licensee's infrastructure
92. Cross-connections
93. Building over infrastructure
94. Access chambers
95. Unauthorised use of water or effluent
96. Tapping main or drawing off water
97. Wasting water
98. Notice of demolition of building connected to main, etc.
99. Pollution
100. Unlawful abstraction or diversion of water or effluent
101. Notice of work that may affect water supply or sewerage services infrastructure
102. Impersonation of officers
103. Obstruction
104. False or misleading information
Part 6 Miscellaneous
Division 1 Protection of property in infrastructure
105. Water supply and sewerage services infrastructure does not merge with land
106. Prevention of dismantling of water supply and sewerage services infrastructure in execution of judgment
Division 2 Warrants to enter places
107. Application and issue of warrant
108. Urgent situations
Division 3 General
109. Delegation by Minister
110. Statutory declarations
111. General defence
112. Offences by corporations
113. Continuing offence
114. Licensees not liable in certain circumstances
115. Immunity from liability
116. Evidence
117. Service
118. Regulations
119. Repeal
120. Transitional
Schedule Repealed Acts
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