70Regulations

70 Regulations

70 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2) In particular, the regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of this Act (including the interpretation of references to the Hunter Water Board or any member or employee of the Hunter Water Board or to the Hunter Water Board Act 1988 or any provision of that Act).

(3) Any such savings or transitional provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect on the commencement of this section or a later date.

(4) To the extent to which any such savings or transitional provision takes effect on a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as—

(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State, the Corporation, the Hunter Water Board or any authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication, or

(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State, the Corporation, the Hunter Water Board or any authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.

(5) Without limiting any of the provisions of this section, the regulations may make provision for or with respect to—

(a) the renewal of, and the arrangements to apply pending the renewal of, the operating licence, and

(b) the supply of water, the provision of sewerage or drainage services or the disposal of waste water in any extension of the area of operations following any variation in the area of operations after the commencement of the operating licence, and

(b1) in the case of drought or accident, or if the Minister is for some other reason of the opinion that it is necessary in the public interest and for the purpose of maintaining water supply—the restriction or regulation of the supply and use of water in the area of operations, and

(c) the classification or valuation of land or other basis or bases for the making of, and the procedure for the making and imposing or levying of availability charges, environmental levies and rates, and