Water Management (General) Regulation 2018.

This Regulation, consisting of 237 sections divided into ten Parts and completed by seven Schedules, implements the Water Management Act 2000. The Regulation is divided as follows: Preliminary (Part 1); Access licences (Part 2); Approvals (Part 3); Irrigation corporations (Part 4); Elections (Part 5); Private drainage boards (Part 6); Private water trusts (Part 7); Public works (Part 8); Water supply authorities (Parts 9); Miscellaneous (10). Schedules deal with: Excluded works (I); Stream order of a watercourse (II); Categories and subcategories of licences (III); Exemptions (IV); Forms (V); Floodplain (VI); Penalty notice offences (VII).
In particular, it deals with the following matters: Categories of access licence; Specific purpose access licences; Priorities between different categories of access licence; Available water determinations; Service of notices imposing conditions after licence or approval is granted; Applications generally; Applications for specific purpose access licences; Matters to be included in Water Access Licence Register; Nomination of water supply works and extraction points; Dealings on default; Circumstances in which Minister may refuse to accept surrender of access licence; Cancellation of specific purpose access licences; Register of available water determinations; Water allocation accounts; Requirements for consent by co-holders of access licences; Claims for compensation; and Determining value of water illegally taken.