New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER MANAGEMENT (GENERAL) REGULATION 2018 - REG 229

229 Mandatory metering equipment conditions

(1) For the purposes of section 115 of the Act, it is a mandatory condition of an access licence that metering equipment is installed, used and properly maintained in connection with a water supply work that is or may be used to take water under the licence if--

(a) the work is exempt from the requirement for a water supply work approval because of section 4.41 or 5.23 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 or because it is part of a transitional Part 3A project under that Act, or

(b) the work is used for the purpose of prospecting or fossicking for minerals or petroleum under the Mining Act 1992 or the Petroleum (Onshore) Act 1991 .

(2) For the purposes of section 115A of the Act, it is a mandatory condition of a licence or other entitlement under the former 1912 Act that metering equipment is installed, used and properly maintained in connection with a work that is or may be used to take water under the licence or entitlement.

(3) The holder of an authority is taken to have complied with a particular aspect of the condition imposed by this clause if the holder has complied with the applicable requirements (if any) set out in this Regulation.