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South Australia
Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation Target and
Sustainable Water Resources) Bill 2007
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Public Corporations Act 1993, the South
Australian Water Corporation Act 1994 and the Waterworks
Act 1932.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Public Corporations
Act 1993
4 Amendment of section 12—Corporation's
charter
Part 3—Amendment of South Australian Water
Corporation Act 1994
5 Amendment of section 7—Functions
of Corporation
6 Insertion of section 7A
7A Annual
report
Part 4—Amendment of Waterworks
Act 1932
7 Amendment of section 6—Water
districts
8 Insertion of section 26
26 Requirement to be
satisfied of sufficient sustainable water resources before new supply points
determined
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation
Target and Sustainable Water Resources) Act 2007.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Public Corporations
Act 1993
4—Amendment of
section 12—Corporation's charter
Section 12(2)—after paragraph (b) insert:
(ba) a requirement for the Corporation to perform its commercial and
non-commercial operations in a manner that ensures proper consideration is given
to—
(a) the need to conserve, and reduce adverse effects on, water resources;
and
(b) the need to ensure that development is ecologically sustainable;
and
Part 3—Amendment
of South Australian Water Corporation
Act 1994
5—Amendment of
section 7—Functions of Corporation
(1) Section 7(2)—after paragraph (a) insert:
(ab) to carry out and facilitate research about conserving or reducing
adverse effects on water resources;
(ac) to provide and facilitate the provision of goods and services
designed to conserve or reduce adverse effects on water resources, including,
for example—
(i) by establishing, participating in or facilitating schemes involving
incentives for efficient use of water;
(ii) by developing, providing or facilitating the development and
provision of products and systems designed for efficient use of water;
(iii) by providing, or facilitating the provision of, advice about the
efficient use of water;
(iv) by providing, or facilitating the provision of, educational programs
designed to change human behaviour in a way that will reduce the consumption of
water;
(2) Section 7(2)(d)—delete paragraph (d)
(3) Section 7(2)—after paragraph (e) insert:
(ea) to encourage and facilitate the work of other organisations with
objects that include conserving and reducing adverse effects on water
resources;
(eb) to provide advice to the Minister about measures that should be taken
to conserve or reduce adverse effects on water resources;
(4) Section 7—after subsection (2) insert:
(3) In the performance of its functions, the Corporation is to give proper
consideration to—
(a) the need to conserve, and reduce adverse effects on, water resources;
and
(b) the need to ensure that development is ecologically
sustainable.
(4) In particular, the Corporation must strive to reduce water consumption
within this State so as to meet the following target: the average amount of
water consumed per capita for the financial year commencing on
1 July 2015 should be at least 30% less than the average amount of
water consumed per capita for the financial year commencing on
1 July 2005.
After section 7 insert:
7A—Annual report
Each annual report presented by the Corporation to the Minister under the
Public Sector Management Act 1995 must include—
(a) in the case of reports for financial years up to and including the
financial year commencing on 1 July 2015—an assessment of the progress
that has been made in the financial year to which the report relates towards
meeting the target for the reduction of water consumption within this State;
and
(b) an estimate of the amount of water consumed for residential,
commercial, industrial, government and other purposes within this State in the
financial year to which the report relates and a description of the basis on
which those estimates have been made; and
(c) an estimate of the amount of water that it is forecast will be
consumed for residential, commercial, industrial, government and other purposes
within this State over the next 5 years and a description of the basis on
which those estimates have been made; and
(d) a description of the strategies that the Corporation has employed to
conserve, and reduce adverse effects on, water resources in the financial year
to which the report relates; and
(e) a description of the various strategies that could be employed by the
Corporation to conserve, and reduce adverse effects on, water resources and an
assessment of the relative merits and costs of those strategies; and
(f) a plan for the following 5 years of the strategies that the
Corporation proposes to employ to conserve, and reduce adverse effects on, water
resources; and
(g) a description of the extent to which the Corporation has, during the
financial year to which the report relates, encouraged and facilitated the work
of other organisations with objects that include conserving and reducing adverse
effects on water resources.
Part 4—Amendment
of Waterworks
Act 1932
7—Amendment of
section 6—Water districts
Section 6—after subsection (3) insert:
(4) Before the Corporation declares any part of the State to be a water
district or alters the boundaries of a water district by adding land to the
district, the Corporation must be satisfied that there are sufficient
sustainable water resources for the purposes of supplying water to persons who
are likely, within the foreseeable future, to become entitled under this Act to
that supply as a result of the declaration or alteration.
Before section 27 insert:
26—Requirement to be satisfied of sufficient
sustainable water resources before new supply points
determined
The Corporation must not determine to supply water by means of a direct
service, or to supply water to a point determined by the Corporation from which
land may receive a supply of water, unless satisfied that, for the foreseeable
future, there are sufficient sustainable water resources for the purposes of
that supply.