A county council in New South Wales, Australia, is a special purpose local government body[1][2][3][4] to which a group of local government councils delegate the provision of certain services.
Under the Local Government Act 1993, a county council can exist only for a specific purpose or purposes identified by the proclamation of the Governor which establishes it.
[5] County councils were established under the Local Government Act 1919 (NSW).
The councillors of a county council are not directly elected by residents and property owners but are delegates of the member local governments.
They formerly played a major role in electricity distribution, particularly in metropolitan areas but the electricity county councils were taken over by the NSW government which privatised and sold the businesses.