Title: Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation Target and Sustainable WaterResources) Bill 2007
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: parliamentary.copy
Document comments: lc63

Legislative Council—No 63
As introduced and read a first time, 12 September 2007

Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation Target and Sustainable Water Resources) Bill 2007

Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation Target and Sustainable Water Resources) Bill 2007
Part 1—Preliminary

Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation Target and Sustainable Water Resources) Bill 2007
Preliminary—Part 1

Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation Target and Sustainable Water Resources) Bill 2007
Part 2—Amendment of Public Corporations Act 1993

Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation Target and Sustainable Water Resources) Bill 2007
Amendment of Public Corporations Act 1993—Part 2

Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation Target and Sustainable Water Resources) Bill 2007
Part 3—Amendment of South Australian Water Corporation Act 1994

Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation Target and Sustainable Water Resources) Bill 2007
Amendment of South Australian Water Corporation Act 1994—Part 3

Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation Target and Sustainable Water Resources) Bill 2007
Part 4—Amendment of Waterworks Act 1932

Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation Target and Sustainable Water Resources) Bill 2007
Amendment of Waterworks Act 1932—Part 4

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:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Statutes Amendment (Water Conservation Target and Sustainable Water Resources) Act 2007.
2—Commencement
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
3—Amendment provisions
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.
6—Insertion of section 7A
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.
8—Insertion of section 26
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.

LC GP 099-B: the Hon Mark Parnell MLC