New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER ACT 1912 - SECT 20L

20L Issue of group licence

(1) If no objection to the granting of the application has been lodged or if such an objection has been lodged and the Ministerial Corporation has received the report of the Secretary or Magistrate upon any inquiry into the application, the Ministerial Corporation shall decide whether or not to grant the application.

(2) Where the Ministerial Corporation's decision is that the application for the group licence shall be granted, the Ministerial Corporation shall notify the Board of the prescribed fee, of the period for which the group licence is to be issued and of the terms, limitations and conditions which the Ministerial Corporation has decided shall be attached to the group licence.

(2A) The prescribed fee is not payable in the case of an initial group licence in respect of an existing work.

(3) On payment of the whole, or the first instalment, of the prescribed fee and the Board certifying that the works referred to in section 20K (1) (a) and the works required to convey the water to the lands of the occupiers on which the water is to be used:

(a) have, under section 29 of the Private Irrigation Districts Act 1973 , been constructed,

(b) are the subject of a notice served under section 34 (1) of that Act, or

(c) have been transferred to the Board under section 35 of that Act,

the Ministerial Corporation shall issue to the Board a group licence for the period and on the terms, limitations and conditions referred to in subsection (2).

(4) A group licence shall not be issued for a period that, except in such circumstances as may be prescribed, exceeds 10 years.

(5) If the Board fails to pay to the Ministerial Corporation within the prescribed time the first instalment of the prescribed fee or, where that fee is not paid by instalments, the whole of that fee, the Ministerial Corporation may at any time thereafter reject the application.

(6) When an application is rejected under subsection (5) the deposit accompanying such application or any part of that deposit may, in the discretion of the Ministerial Corporation, be retained by it.