(1) Water allocations that have been used by the holder of a prescribed access licence may be regained in accordance with this section.
(2) The holder of a prescribed access licence may apply to the Minister for used water allocations to be recredited to the water allocation account for the licence.
(3) An application under this section is to be dealt with in accordance with the water return flow rules.
(4) In this section--
"prescribed access licence" means an access licence of a category or subcategory prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.