New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER ACT 1912 - SECT 20Q

20Q Amendment of group licence

(1) The Board may apply to the Ministerial Corporation in the prescribed form for an amended group licence to be issued to it in substitution for the group licence or amended group licence held by it.

(2) Where:

(a) a Board is notified by the Ministerial Corporation that the Governor proposes pursuant to section 11 of the Private Irrigation Districts Act 1973 to re-define the boundaries of a private district by adding to that private district any lands and the Board makes an application under subsection (1) for an amended group licence to enable those lands to be supplied with water, or

(b) a Board makes an application under subsection (1) for an amended group licence by reason of any proposed alteration of any work to which this Part extends and the Ministerial Corporation is of the opinion that the alteration would, if made, materially and prejudicially affect the quantity or quality of water flowing in, to, or from, or being in any river or lake,

the provisions of section 20E (2) (b), (b1), (b2) and (c) apply to and in respect of the application in the same way as those provisions apply to an application referred to in that section and:

(c) the provisions of section 20K (3) apply to and in respect of any inquiry and report made for the purposes of this subsection, and

(d) the provisions of section 20L (1) and (2) (except so much of section 20L (2) as relates to the period for which a group licence is to be issued) apply to and in respect of the granting of the amended group licence in the same way as they apply to the granting of a group licence.

(3) The Ministerial Corporation may grant any application made under subsection (1) but shall not grant an application referred to in subsection (2) unless:

(a) the provisions referred to in subsection (2) have been complied with,

(b) such fee as the Ministerial Corporation may determine has been paid in respect of the amended group licence applied for, and

(c) in the case of an application referred to in subsection (2) (a):

(i) a proclamation under section 11 of the Private Irrigation Districts Act 1973 re-defining the boundaries of the private district has been published in the Gazette, and

(ii) the Board has certified that any works necessary to convey water to the lands added to the private district have, under section 29 or 34 of that Act, been constructed or taken over.

(4) Except as provided in subsections (3) and (6), no fee shall be payable in respect of an application for or the issue of an amended group licence.

(5) An amended group licence shall be issued for the unexpired period for which the group licence it replaces was issued.

(6) Any instalment of a fee payable in respect of the issue or renewal of a group licence which is unpaid when the licence is replaced by an amended group licence shall be deemed to be payable in respect of the issue of the amended group licence.