The Act, consisting of numerous sections divided into 30 Parts and completed by 7 Schedules, is a comprehensive enactment providing for preliminary matters (Part 1), rights and liabilities (2), water resources assessment and accounting (3), establishment of the Victorian Environmental Water Holder (3AA), water shares (3A), water allocation (bulk entitlements and licences) (4), delivery of interstate water (4A), water use licences and water use registrations (4B), water works (5), levee maintenance on Crown land (5AA), Victorian water register (5A), water corporations (6), districts and land management areas (6A), duties of water corporations (6B), storage managers (6C), powers of Government (7), reconfiguration plans (7A), water supply (8), sewerage (9), waterway management (10), irrigation (11), salinity mitigation (11A), access over lands (12), finance and accountability (13), process for transfer of property of authorities (13A), procedures for making by-laws (13B), enforcement (14), general provisions (15), transitional, validation and other provisions — Water and Catchment Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (16), transitional provisions — Water and Catchment Legislation Amendment Act 2021 (17), amendments consequential to the repeal of Part 1B of the Water Industry Act 1994 (18).