1996—No. 265 (NSW)

1996—No. 265

IRRIGATION CORPORATIONS ACT 1994—REGULATION

(Relating to the Hay Irrigation Area)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 77 of 28 June 1996]

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Irrigation Corporations Act 1994, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

KIM YEADON M.P.,

Minister for Land and Water Conservation.

Commencement

1. This Regulation commences on 1 July 1996.

Amendment

2. The Irrigation Corporations (General) Regulation 1995 is amended:

(a) by inserting after clause 5 the following clause:

Provisions consequent on the establishment of the Hay Irrigation Area as a private district under the Private Irrigation Districts Act 1973

5A. The Ministerial Corporation may continue to exercise its functions under the Hay Irrigation Act 1902 with respect to the levy, imposition or recovery of rates, fees or charges for water supplied or services rendered by or on behalf of the Ministerial Corporation during the period prior to the commencement of this clause.

(b) by omitting clause 11.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

The objects of this Regulation are:

(a) to ensure that the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation may continue to impose, levy and recover rates, fees and charges for the period prior to the establishment of the Hay Irrigation Area as a private district under the Private Irrigation Districts Act 1973; and

(b) to repeal an obsolete provision.

This Regulation is made under the Irrigation Corporations Act 1994, including section 96 (the general regulation making power). That section expressly empowers the making of regulations of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the amendments effected by Schedule 3 to that Act.