WATER INDUSTRY BILL

Final Stages

The House of Assembly agreed to amendments Nos. 1 to 11 and 13 to 16 made by the Legislative Council without any amendment; disagreed to amendment No. 12; and made alternative amendments as indicated in the following schedule in lieu thereof:

New clause, page 71, after line 23 Insert:

96A—Report on installation of separate meters on properties

(1) The Commission must undertake a cost benefit analysis of implementing a scheme designed to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that—

(a) all land—

(i) that is owned by the South Australian Housing Trust or another agency or instrumentality of the Crown; and

(ii) that is used for residential purposes; and

(iii) that is supplied with water by a water industry entity as part of a reticulated water system; and

(b) any other land the Commission determines to include in the analysis,

will have a meter that records the amount of water supplied to that piece of land.

(2) The scheme for the purposes of the analysis must address—

(a) the fitting of meters to premises existing at the time of the publication of the report (insofar as meters are not fitted); and

(b) the fitting of meters to premises constructed after the publication of the report.

(3) The Commission must prepare and publish a report on the analysis by 30 June 2013.