Sydney Water Act 1994

The Corporation may, by persons issued with certificates of authority under section 39, enter and occupy land or a building in accordance with this Division for any one or more of the following purposes—

to operate, repair, replace, maintain, remove, extend, expand, connect, disconnect, improve or do any other things that the Corporation considers are necessary or appropriate to any of its works or to construct new works and, for these purposes, to carry out any work on, below or above the surface of the land,

to read a meter that measures water supplied by the Corporation or material discharged into the Corporation’s sewers,

to make a valuation or assessment of the usage of the land or of any building on the land,

to find the source of pollution of water supplied by the Corporation and, for this purpose, to dig up and remove material from the land,

to ascertain whether a customer contract or other contract for the provision of services by the Corporation is being breached in relation to the connection to or use of works and, for this purpose, to dig up and remove material from the land,

to cut off or restrict the supply of water or other services to the land if any contract charges relating to the supply of water or those services to the land by the Corporation are unpaid,

to rectify defective or improper work that has not been rectified in accordance with a notice served by the Corporation under a customer contract or other contract,

to ascertain the character and condition of the land or a building to enable the Corporation to operate, repair, replace, maintain, remove, extend, expand, connect, disconnect or improve, or do any other thing to, the Corporation’s systems and services for the purposes of carrying out the terms and conditions of an operating licence,

to ascertain the condition and location of any pipe, sewer, drain, channel or fitting or other work used in connection with the land or a building to enable the Corporation to operate, repair, replace, maintain, remove, extend, expand, connect, disconnect or improve, or do any other thing to, the Corporation’s systems and services for the purposes of carrying out the terms and conditions of an operating licence.

Material that has been excavated from land for the purposes of this section may only be removed from the land by the Corporation—

if this is necessary for the purpose of ascertaining whether an offence has been committed against this Act, or

if the owner of the land has consented to its removal.