Victorian Current Acts

WATER ACT 1989 - SECT 64FE

    (1)     A general place of take approval remains in force until whichever of the following first occurs—

        (a)     the end of the period, if any, specified by the Minister in the approval as the period for which the approval remains in force;

        (b)     the approval is cancelled by the Minister under section 64FR or 64FS;

        (c)     in relation to the approval—

              (i)     the holder—

    (A)     is not the holder of a related water-use licence or water‑use registration that authorises water, taken from the approved place, to be used on the land specified in the licence or registration; and

    (B)     does not have the consent of the holder of such a water-use licence or water-use registration to so use water; and

              (ii)     either—

    (A)     there is no notional rationing rate fixed to the approval; or

    (B)     the notional rationing rate fixed to the approval is zero.

    (2)     Subsection (1)(c) does not apply if the person holding the approval is the holder of a bulk entitlement or an environmental entitlement.

S. 64FF inserted by No. 48/2021 s. 32 (as amended by No. 10/2023 ss 7–13).