New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER ACT 1912 - SECT 20C

20C Renewal of authority

(1) Subject as hereinafter in this section provided an authority may be renewed from time to time by the Ministerial Corporation on the application of the holders of the authority and on payment of the prescribed fee.
Such application shall be made before the authority expires but the Ministerial Corporation may deal with an application even if it is lodged later.
No renewal shall be for a period that, except in such circumstances as may be prescribed, exceeds 10 years at any one time.

(1A) Pending consideration of the application by the Ministerial Corporation the authority shall not lapse, but should the prescribed fee be not paid within the prescribed time the authority shall lapse.

(1B) Where the Ministerial Corporation deals with an application for renewal lodged after the authority expires, subsection (1A) has effect as if the application had been under consideration since before the expiration of the authority.

(2) An authority may be renewed by the Ministerial Corporation subject to such terms and conditions in respect of the taking of water as the Ministerial Corporation may deem fit and subject to such conditions in respect of the arrangements to be made between the holders of the authority for the provision, construction, operation, maintenance and renewal of the works, the apportionment of the water taken by means of the works between such of the holders as are supplied with that water and the payments to be made in respect of each and all parts of the operations for the water supply as shall be determined by the Ministerial Corporation.

(5) In this section,
"authority" means an authority issued under section 20B.