Victorian Current Acts

WATER ACT 1989 - SECT 84L

    (1)     Subject to this Act, on the death of a person recorded in the water register with any other person as—

        (a)     joint owners of a water share; or

        (b)     joint holders of a limited term transfer; or

        (c)     joint holders of a mortgagee interest in a water share—

the survivor may lodge a document with the Registrar for a recording to be made in the water register of the transmission to the survivor of the deceased person's ownership or holding.

    (2)     A document lodged under subsection (1) must be in the approved form.

    (3)     The Registrar may make a recording of the transmission by survivorship of the joint ownership of a water share or the joint holding of a limited term transfer on being satisfied as to proof of the death of the joint owner or joint holder (as the case requires).

S. 84M inserted by No. 99/2005 s. 57.