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WATER ACT 1912 - SECT 27
Regulations
27 Regulations
(1) The Governor may make regulations prescribing or relating to: (a) forms
of, and of application for: (i) licences, group licences, authorities and
permits, and
(ii) renewal of licences, group licences, authorities and
permits,
and forms of notices required or authorised under this Part,
(b)
fees payable in respect of licences, renewals of licences, authorities,
renewals of authorities, permits and renewals of permits, group licences and
renewals of group licences,
(c) the prevention of the pollution of water and
the obstruction or injury to or interference with works,
(c1) a scheme for
transfers between holders of licences, authorities and group licences of
rights to take and use water from a water source that is not the subject of a
volumetric water allocations scheme under Division 4B,
(c2) a scheme for
transfers between holders of licences, authorities and group licences of
rights to store or conserve water in dams within the meaning of section 22BB,
(d) the furnishing by holders of licences, holders of group licences, holders
of permits, holders of authorities or group licence occupiers, of returns
specifying the area of their irrigated land, crops watered, number of days on
which irrigation is carried on, times of irrigation, and such other
particulars as the Governor may consider fit,
(e) the terms and conditions
governing joint water supply schemes, including charges for water
(e1) the
prohibition or regulation of the mooring of any ship, boat, barge, punt,
craft, houseboat or any other vessel whatsoever within prescribed areas in any
river or lake which is a source of public water supply or of water supply for
any town or village within the State of New South Wales or the State of
Victoria,
(e2) the empowering of the Ministerial Corporation or any person
authorised by the Ministerial Corporation to remove or cause to be removed any
ship, boat, barge, punt, craft, houseboat or other vessel moored in
contravention of the regulations,
(e3) matters giving effect to the
provisions of this Part relating to the purchase and sale of water allocations
including, in the case of purchases by tender, matters relating to the
submission, and the acceptance or rejection, of a tender, and
(f) the
imposition of a penalty for any breach of the regulations: (i) where the
breach is committed by a corporation--not exceeding 200 penalty units and, in
the case of a continuing breach, the imposition of a further penalty not
exceeding 20 penalty units for each day the breach continues, or
(ii) where
the breach is committed by any other person--not exceeding 100 penalty units
and, in the case of a continuing breach, the imposition of a further penalty
not exceeding 10 penalty units for each day the breach continues,
and
generally for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Part and
providing for the procedure thereunder.
(1A) A provision of a regulation may:
(a) apply generally or be limited in its application by reference to specified
exceptions or factors,
(b) apply differently according to different factors
of a specified kind, or
(c) authorise any matter or thing to be from time to
time determined, applied or regulated by a specified person or body,
or may do
any combination of those things.
(2) Part 3 of the Subordinate Legislation
Act 1989 does not apply to or in respect of the regulations under this Part.
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