30Acquisition of land for purposes of this Act

30 Acquisition of land for purposes of this Act

30 Acquisition of land for purposes of this Act

(1) Water NSW may acquire land (including an interest in land) for the purposes of this Act.

(2) Other purposes for which land may be acquired under this section include the purposes of a future sale, lease or disposal, that is, to enable Water NSW to exercise its functions in relation to land under this Act.

(3) Land that Water NSW is authorised to acquire under this section may be acquired by agreement or by compulsory process in accordance with the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991.

(4) For the purposes of the Public Works and Procurement Act 1912—

(a) an acquisition in accordance with this section is taken to be for an authorised work, and

(b) Water NSW is, in relation to that work, taken to be the Constructing Authority, and

(c) Part 3 and section 91 (b) and (c) of that Act do not apply in respect of that work.

(5) Water NSW may not give a proposed acquisition notice under the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 for the purposes of this or any other Act, without the approval of the portfolio Minister.

(6) Any such acquisition is not void merely because it is expressed to be for the purposes of Water NSW or for the purposes of this Act.