Inquiry into the Water Bill 2007 and Water (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2007

Information about the Inquiry

The Senate has referred the Water Bill 2007 and Water (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2007 to the Committee for inquiry and report by 14 August 2007.

The Committee is seeking short written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form sent by email to ecita.sen@aph.gov.au. The email must include full postal address and contact details. The committee would prefer submissions by 8.00 p.m. Thursday, 9 August 2007, and no later than 4.30 p.m. Friday 10 August 2007.

Alternatively, submissions may be sent to The Secretary, Senate Environment, Communications Information Technology and the Arts Committee, by fax to 02 6277 5818.

Submissions become committee documents and are made public only after a decision by the Committee. Persons making submissions must not release them without the approval of the Committee. Submissions are covered by parliamentary privilege but the unauthorised release of them is not.

Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to the Parliament House TTY number (02) 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. These tools are available at: http://access.adobe.com/. If you require any special arrangements in order to enable you to participate in a committee inquiry, please contact the committee secretary.

For further information, contact:

Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Environment, Communications and the Arts
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

Phone:	+61 2 6277 3526
Fax:	+61 2 6277 5818
Email:	ecita.sen@aph.gov.au