Victorian Current Acts

WATER ACT 1989 - SECT 64FZQ

The Minister, in making the rules under section 64FZP may consider—

        (a)     the provisions of any agreements entered into under section 33AE that relate to dealings in rights to take water and the place of taking of water; and

        (b)     the Basin Plan and any relevant Basin water resource plans; and

        (c)     any adverse effect that the rules are likely to have on any of the following in any water system to which the rules apply—

              (i)     existing authorised uses in the system;

              (ii)     any waterway or aquifer in the system;

              (iii)     the maintenance of the environmental water reserve in accordance with the environmental water reserve objective;

              (iv)     the existing and projected availability of water in the system; and

        (d)     the need to protect the environment, including the riverine and riparian environment; and

        (e)     any other matters that the Minister thinks fit to have regard to.

Division 5—External place of take approval

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