Water Charge Rules 2010.

These Rules are organised in 11 Parts and 3 Schedules. For the purposes of these Rules, an infrastructure operator is a member owned operator if the majority of its customers are related customers. Moreover, in these Rules, a customer of an infrastructure operator is defined a related customer in relation to that infrastructure operator if: (a) the customer is a beneficiary of a trust of which the infrastructure operator is a trustee; or (b) where the infrastructure operator is a company within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001, the customer is a related body corporate within the meaning of that Act in relation to the infrastructure operator; or a member of the company; or (c) where the infrastructure operator is a body corporate incorporated under a law of a State or of the Commonwealth (other than the Corporations Act 2001), the customer is a member of the body corporate; or (d) the customer has any other legal or equitable interest in the infrastructure operator.
Part 2 provides conditions applying to infrastructure charges and planning and management charges and exemptions relating to certain contracts. It also includes additional conditions applying to Part 6 and 7 operators (see respectively Rule 23 and Rule 45 for definitions). Part 3 sets a restriction of differing infrastructure charges for same infrastructure service. Part 4 establishes that an infrastructure operator, or a person, other than an infrastructure operator, who determines or levies planning and management charges, or on whose behalf such charges are collected, must adopt a schedule of charges respecting certain requirements as listed under Rule 11 and 12. Rule 13 also provides for the content.
When an infrastructure operator becomes a Part 6 operator (Rule 23 defines it as an infrastructure operator that is not required to have all its infrastructure charges determined or approved by a single State Agency under a law of the State in a way that is consistent with paragraph 29(2)(b); and the operator levies an infrastructure charge in relation to either a bulk water service in respect of water access rights; or infrastructure services in relation to the storage or delivery of water that is necessary to give effect to an arrangement for the sharing of water between more than one Basin State) must notify the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Under this Part the ACCC provides for approval and determination of infrastructure charges for each year of each regulatory period, including review and variations. Part 7 concerns approval or determination of infrastructure charges of Part 7 operators as defined under Rule 45. Part 8 regulates disclosure of information by the ACCC. Part 10 concerns termination fees.