Water Supply (Critical Needs) Act 2019

The development described in Part 2 of this Schedule—

is taken for the purposes of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 to be State significant infrastructure and critical State significant infrastructure, and

may be carried out without development consent.

The regulations may amend Part 2 of this Schedule as follows—

to insert or alter a description of development that relates to the construction of a new dam or the increase in storage capacity of an existing dam,

to omit a description of development.

Before making a recommendation to the Governor for the making of a regulation of a kind referred to in subclause (2)(a), the Minister is required to obtain the concurrence of the Minister administering the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.