Rivers and Water Supply Commission Act 1999
An Act to provide for the Rivers and Water Supply Commission to continue and for other purposes
[Royal Assent 27 October 1999]
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:
PART 1 - Preliminary
This Act may be cited as the Rivers and Water Supply Commission Act 1999 .
This Act commences on a day to be proclaimed.
In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –Commission means the Rivers and Water Supply Commission;water district means a water supply district, irrigation district, riverworks district or drainage district established or continued in force under Part 9 of the Water Management Act 1999 .
PART 2 - Rivers and Water Supply Commission
The Commission, formerly established under the Water Act 1957 , continues.
5. Saving for Commission's water rights, &c.
(1) [Section 5 Subsection (1) omitted by No. 12 of 2004, s. 67, Applied:29 Jun 2005] . . . . . . . .(2) A water district formerly administered by the Commission continues to be administered by the Commission subject to the Water Management Act 1999 as if the Commission were appointed as the water entity responsible for the administration of that district.
The Commission has the following functions:(a) to administer water districts in accordance with section 5(2) ;(b) to manage property of the Crown or the Commission and other property related to the administration of such districts;(c) to provide project management and project development services in the commercial water industry and related industries;(d) to undertake the necessary duties of a Government Business Enterprise;(e) such other functions related to the commercial water industry as the Minister directs.
7. Contracts, &c., made by Commission
Contracts, leases and agreements made by the Commission before the commencement of this Act remain in force on the same terms and conditions for the purposes of this Act unless subsequently altered by the Commission in the normal course of business.
PART 3 - Miscellaneous
(1) The Governor may make regulations for the purposes of this Act.(2) Regulations may be made so as to apply differently according to matters, limitations or restrictions, whether as to time, circumstance or otherwise, specified in the regulations.(3) The regulations may authorise any matter to be from time to time determined, applied or regulated by the Minister or an officer or person specified in the regulations.
Until provision is made in relation to this Act by order under section 4 of the Administrative Arrangements Act 1990 –(a) the administration of this Act is assigned to the Minister for Primary Industries, Water and Environment; and(b) the department responsible to the Minister for Primary Industries, Water and Environment in relation to the administration of this Act is the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment.