Water Management (General) Regulation 2004.
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Type of law
Regulation
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Date of latest amendment
Abstract
This Regulation implements the Water Management Act 2000 by providing specifications on management plans (Part 2), access licences (Part 3), approvals (Part 4), fees and charges (Part 5), irrrigation corporations(Parts 6).
In particular, it deals with the following matters: (a) machinery and transitional matters, including the temporary extension of some existing administrative exemptions and of opportunities to apply for access licences for certain pre-1999 existing works (Part 1), (b) the prescription of circumstances in which management plans may authorise the debiting of water accounts, and a machinery amendment to some current management plans to update section references that have been changed by the Water Management Amendment Act 2004 (Part 2), (c) prescribing new categories of access licence, establishing priorities between different categories of access licences and other machinery matters with respect to access licences (Part 3, Division 1), d) establishing exemptions from the requirement for an access licence for certain purposes, with respect to certain applications for specific purpose access licences and with respect to the requirements for a security holder’s consent to certain kinds of dealings in connection with access licences (Part 3, Division 2), (e) providing for supplementary water access licences to replace certain entitlements under the Water Act 1912 in relation to the Gwydir, Hunter, Lower Darling, Lower Namoi, Macquarie and Cudgegong, Murray and Murrumbidgee water sources (Part 3, Division 3), (f) prescribing machinery matters with respect to approvals (Part 4, Division 1), (g) establishing exemptions from the requirement for water use and water supply work approvals, and excluding certain kinds of approval from a provision of the Act that gives the benefit of an approval to successive landholders of the land to which the approval relates (Part 4, Division 2), h) enabling fees and charges under the Act to be waived, reduced or remitted (Part 5), (i) establishing machinery for the inclusion of land within, and the exclusion of land from, an irrigation corporation’s area of operations (Part 6).
In particular, it deals with the following matters: (a) machinery and transitional matters, including the temporary extension of some existing administrative exemptions and of opportunities to apply for access licences for certain pre-1999 existing works (Part 1), (b) the prescription of circumstances in which management plans may authorise the debiting of water accounts, and a machinery amendment to some current management plans to update section references that have been changed by the Water Management Amendment Act 2004 (Part 2), (c) prescribing new categories of access licence, establishing priorities between different categories of access licences and other machinery matters with respect to access licences (Part 3, Division 1), d) establishing exemptions from the requirement for an access licence for certain purposes, with respect to certain applications for specific purpose access licences and with respect to the requirements for a security holder’s consent to certain kinds of dealings in connection with access licences (Part 3, Division 2), (e) providing for supplementary water access licences to replace certain entitlements under the Water Act 1912 in relation to the Gwydir, Hunter, Lower Darling, Lower Namoi, Macquarie and Cudgegong, Murray and Murrumbidgee water sources (Part 3, Division 3), (f) prescribing machinery matters with respect to approvals (Part 4, Division 1), (g) establishing exemptions from the requirement for water use and water supply work approvals, and excluding certain kinds of approval from a provision of the Act that gives the benefit of an approval to successive landholders of the land to which the approval relates (Part 4, Division 2), h) enabling fees and charges under the Act to be waived, reduced or remitted (Part 5), (i) establishing machinery for the inclusion of land within, and the exclusion of land from, an irrigation corporation’s area of operations (Part 6).
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Last amended by Act No. 358 of 2007.
Repealed
Yes
Source language
English
Legislation Amendment
No
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