Water Management Act 2000

The Ministerial Corporation has the following functions—

to construct, maintain and operate water management works,

to construct, maintain and operate gauging stations and other monitoring equipment,

to conduct research, collect information and develop technology in relation to water management,

to acquire rights to water, whether within or beyond New South Wales,

to do anything for the purpose of enabling the objects of this Act to be attained.

The Ministerial Corporation has such other functions as are conferred or imposed on it by or under this or any other Act or law.

The Ministerial Corporation may exercise its functions within and beyond New South Wales.

The Ministerial Corporation may exercise any of its functions, and may otherwise act, in the name of the Department.

It is the duty of the Ministerial Corporation to exercise its functions consistently with the principles of ecologically sustainable development.

It is the duty of the Ministerial Corporation to exercise its function of issuing a Snowy water licence under Part 5 of the Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997 consistently with the terms of the Snowy Water Inquiry Outcomes Implementation Deed.

In subsection (5), Snowy Water Inquiry Outcomes Implementation Deed means the deed under that title that was entered into on behalf of the Commonwealth, New South Wales and Victoria on 3 June 2002, as that deed is amended from time to time in accordance with its terms.