New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 71W

71W Access licence may nominate water supply works and extraction points

(1) On the application of the holder of an access licence made in accordance with the regulations, the Minister may consent to the amendment of the licence so as--

(a) to nominate a specified water supply work or extraction point in the water management area or water source nominated by the licence as a work or point by means of or from which water credited to the licence may be taken, or

(b) to nominate a specified water supply work or extraction point in another water management area or another water source as a work or point by means of or from which water credited to the licence may be taken, or

(c) to nominate a specified water supply work or extraction point in a NSW water tagging zone as a work or point by means of or from which water credited to the licence may be taken, or

(d) to nominate a specified extraction point in an interstate water tagging zone as an extraction point from which water credited to the licence may be taken,

or so as to withdraw such a nomination.

(2) For the avoidance of doubt, a water supply work may be nominated under subsection (1) even though no approval is required to be held in relation to the work.

(3) The relevant notifier for a water supply work must notify the Minister, in accordance with the regulations, of any of the following--

(a) that the work has been nominated (whether by reference to the work itself or by reference to an extraction point at which it is located) as a work from which water credited to the interstate equivalent of an access licence may be taken,

(b) that such a nomination has been withdrawn.

: Tier 3 penalty.

(4) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to--

(a) the making of nominations referred to in subsection (1), including--

(i) the identification of water supply works or extraction points for the purposes of nominations, and

(ii) the circumstances in which particular nominations are, or are not, permitted under that subsection, and

(b) the giving of notifications to the Minister under subsection (3), including the form and timing of such notifications.

(5) In this section--

"relevant notifier" for a water supply work means--

(a) if an approval is in force for the work--the holder of the approval, or

(b) if there is no approval in force for the work--the owner of the work.

"water supply work" includes a reference to a group of such works.