Commencement Proclamation (2018-678) (NSW)

New South Wales

Commencement Proclamation

under the

Water Management Amendment Act 2018 No 31

DAVID HURLEY, Governor

I, General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Ret’d), Governor of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 (1) of the Water Management

Amendment Act 2018, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint:

(a)	1 December 2018 as the day on which Schedule 1 [8], [52] and [87] to that Act commence, and
(b)	1 April 2019 as the day on which Schedule 1 [43] and [44] to that Act commence.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 28th day of November 2018.

By His Excellency’s Command,

NIALL BLAIR, MLC

Minister for Regional Water

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The objects of this Proclamation are to commence amendments to the Water Management Act 2000 (the

Act) in relation to the following:

(a)	on 1 December 2018—periodic auditing of management plans by the Natural Resources Commission and the metering equipment condition of a water supply work approval, and
(b)	on 1 April 2019—exceptions to the offence provision of taking water when metering equipment is not working under section 91I of the Act and an offence provision of failure to report metering equipment not working.

Published LW 30 November 2018 (2018 No 678)