Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams) Proclamation 2019 (NSW)

New South Wales

Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams)

Proclamation 2019

under the

Dams Safety Act 1978

MARGARET BEAZLEY, Governor

I, the Honourable Margaret Beazley AO QC, Governor of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 27 of the Dams Safety Act 1978, make the following Proclamation.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 2nd day of October 2019.

By Her Excellency’s Command,

Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams) Proclamation 2019 [NSW]

Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams) Proclamation 2019

under the

Dams Safety Act 1978

1      Name of Proclamation

This Proclamation is the Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams) Proclamation

2019.

2      Commencement

This Proclamation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams) Proclamation 2019 [NSW]

Schedule 1 Amendment of Dams Safety Act 1978 No 96

Schedule 1 Amendment of Dams Safety Act 1978 No 96

[1]      Schedule 1 Prescribed dams

Insert the following in appropriate order:

Boambee Newport Creeks Detention Basin	Boambee
Bulga North In-pit Tailings Storage	Bulga Coal Mine
Calala Raw Water Storage	Calala
MacDonalds Dam	Mt Arthur Coal, Edderton
Narrabri Coal Rail Loop Dams	Baan Baa
Redbank Dam 14	North Richmond
Sunrise Mine TSF Cell 2	Fifield
Sunrise Mine Water Storage Dam	Fifield
Western Sydney Airport Basin 1	Tributary to Badgerys Creek
Winding Creek Retarding Basin 3	Hillsborough

[2]      Schedule 1

Omit the following:

Bethungra	Wandalybengle Creek near Bethungra
Hunter Valley North Pit Tailings	Hunter Valley
Lake Tullimba	Head Station Creek near Armidale
Mooney Lower Dam	Mooney Mooney Creek near Gosford
Port Waratah Fines Disposal Dam	Off-stream, Newcastle
Prospect—Western Basin	Lorne Street, Prospect
Ruby Road, Rutherford Detention Basin	Rutherford
Young Retirement Village Basin	Tributary of Big Spring Creek, Young

MELINDA PAVEY, MP

Minister for Water, Property and Housing

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The objects of this Proclamation are:

(a) to add the names and locations of certain dams to the list of prescribed dams in Schedule 1 to the

Dams Safety Act 1978 to enable the Dams Safety Committee to exercise certain functions in relation
to the dams (including issuing notices requiring things to be done to ensure the safety of the dams),

and

(b) to omit the names and locations of certain other dams from the list of prescribed dams, so as to remove the prescribed status of those dams.