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SOUTH EASTERN WATER CONSERVATION AND DRAINAGE ACT 1992 - SECT 43

43—Grant of licences

        (1)         The relevant authority may grant a licence authorising a person to carry out work specified in the licence.

        (2)         An application for a licence must be in a form approved by the Minister and must be accompanied by the prescribed fee.

        (3)         A licence may be subject to such conditions as the relevant authority thinks fit and specifies in the licence.

        (4)         The conditions of a licence may, by notice in writing addressed to the holder of the licence, be varied, revoked or added to at any time by the relevant authority.

        (5)         A person who contravenes or fails to comply with a condition of a licence under this Division is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

        (6)         If an application for a licence relates to work that is to be carried out within a River Murray Protection Area and is within a class of applications prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this provision (which class may be prescribed so as to consist of applications for all such licences), the relevant authority must, before making its decision on the application—

            (a)         consult the Minister to whom the administration of the River Murray Act 2003 is committed; and

            (b)         comply with the Minister's directions (if any) in relation to the application (including a direction that the application not be granted, or that if it is to be granted, then the licence be subject to conditions specified by the Minister).



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