Sch 8.30 [2] to this Act (not commenced)
Central Coast Water Corporation Act 2006 No 105 (amended by Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 No 56 and Central Coast Water Corporation Amendment Act 2010 No 89), Sch 7.2 [1] [2] and [4] (not commenced)
Water Management Amendment Act 2018 No 31, Sch 1 [26] [32] [37] [55] [71] [72] [77] [82] [83] and [84], to the extent that it inserts sec 399A (not commenced)
Water Management Amendment (Water Access Licence Register Reform) Act 2024 No 69, Sch 1[3]–[6] and [8] (not commenced)
Sch 13A.1[1]–[5] and Schs 13A.2–13A.6 to this Act (not commenced)
Local Court and Bail Legislation Amendment Act 2025 No 61, Sch 2.91 (not commenced)
Water Management Legislation Amendment (Stronger Enforcement and Penalties) Bill 2025
Water Management Amendment (Register of State and Commonwealth Water Access Licences) Bill 2025 [Non-government Bill— Mrs H J Dalton, MP]
Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Planning System Reforms) Bill 2025
Environment and Water Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
An Act to provide for the protection, conservation and ecologically sustainable development of the water sources of the State, and for other purposes.
This Act is the Water Management Act 2000.
This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.
Different days may be appointed for the commencement of a single provision of Schedule 7 or 8 for the purpose of commencing the repeals or amendments effected by the provision on different days.
Schedule 13A commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.
The objects of this Act are to provide for the sustainable and integrated management of the water sources of the State for the benefit of both present and future generations and, in particular—
(a) to apply the principles of ecologically sustainable development, and
(b) to protect, enhance and restore water sources, their associated ecosystems, ecological processes and biological diversity and their water quality, and
(c) to recognise and foster the significant social and economic benefits to the State that result from the sustainable and efficient use of water, including—
(i) benefits to the environment, and
(ii) benefits to urban communities, agriculture, fisheries, industry and recreation, and
(iii) benefits to culture and heritage, and
(iv) benefits to the Aboriginal people in relation to their spiritual, social, customary and economic use of land and water,
(d) to recognise the role of the community, as a partner with government, in resolving issues relating to the management of water sources,
(e) to provide for the orderly, efficient and equitable sharing of water from water sources,
(f) to integrate the management of water sources with the management of other aspects of the environment, including the land, its soil, its native vegetation and its native fauna,
(g) to encourage the sharing of responsibility for the sustainable and efficient use…