Water Management Act 2000

The regulations must specify the factor or factors according to which a water supply authority may classify land for the purpose of levying service charges.

Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may specify that a water supply authority may classify land according to any one or more of the following factors—

the purpose for which the land is actually being used,

the intensity with which the land is being used for that purpose,

the purposes for which the land is capable of being used,

the nature and extent of the water or sewerage services connected to the land.

For the purposes of subsection (2) (c), land is not capable of being used for a purpose if the use of the land for that purpose would be in contravention of—

the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, or

any environmental planning instrument in force under that Act, or

any other Act or law relating to the use of land.