Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

WATER RESOURCES AMENDMENT ACT 2013 (NO. 27 OF 2013) - SCHEDULE 1

Schedule 1     Other amendments

(see s 3)

Part 1.1     Magistrates Court (Water Resources Infringement Notices) Regulation 2007

[1.1]     Schedule 1, new items 2A and 2B

insert

2A	77C (1A)	50	1000
2B	77F (2)	25	500

Part 1.2     Water Resources Regulation 2007

[1.2]     Section 6 (1) (b)

omit

[1.3]     New section 8A

insert

8A     Exemption from requirement for water access entitlement—road works, earthworks, construction or landscaping—Act, s 30 (2) (a)

    (1)     The authority may exempt a person from the requirement mentioned in the Act, section 30 (2) (a) (i) in relation to surface water if the water is to be used for—

        (a)     road works, earthworks or other construction; or

        (b)     landscaping.

Examples—landscaping

1     establishing new plants along a street

2     establishing vegetation, including an erosion control blanket to stabilise the terrain, where road works or earthworks have been completed

Note     An example is part of the regulation, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act

, s 126 and s 132).

    (2)     The authority may give the exemption only if satisfied that giving the exemption will result in improved environmental outcomes or other public benefit.