Sydney Water Act 1994

The Corporation may enter into a contract or other arrangement with any person for the provision, construction, operation, management or maintenance of systems or services that are the subject of an operating licence or for the carrying out of any of its other activities.

The person with whom any such contract or other arrangement is entered may (subject to the contract or other arrangement) exercise, on behalf of the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation, the right to the use and flow, and to the control, of water conferred on the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation by section 12 of the Water Administration Act 1986 for the purposes referred to in subsection (1).

The power to exercise rights conferred by subsection (2) has effect only until such time as the Corporation is granted a licence or permit by the relevant authority for the purposes referred to in subsections (1) and (2) and the Minister, by certificate published in the Gazette, certifies that such a licence or permit has been granted.

The power to exercise rights under subsection (2) may be exercised only in relation to activities carried out under an operating licence.

The entering into of a contract or other arrangement under this section does not relieve the Corporation of its responsibilities to comply with an operating licence.

This section has effect despite anything in the Water Administration Act 1986.