New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 398

398 Exclusion of Crown liability

(1) Neither the Crown nor any other person is subject to any action, liability, claim or demand arising--

(a) from the unavailability of water, or

(b) from any failure in the quantity or quality of water,

as a consequence of anything done or omitted to be done in good faith by the Minister, by a prescribed authority or by any person acting on behalf of the Minister or a prescribed authority, in the exercise of any functions under this Act or the Water NSW Act 2014 .

(2) Neither the Crown nor any other person is subject to any action, liability, claim or demand arising as a consequence of--

(a) the use in good faith of any water management work, or

(b) the release in good faith of water from any water management work,

by the Minister, by a prescribed authority or by any person acting on behalf of the Minister or a prescribed authority, in the exercise of any functions under this Act or the Water NSW Act 2014 .

(3) In this section,
"prescribed authority" means--

(a) the Ministerial Corporation, or

(b) a water supply authority, or

(c) Water NSW.