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WATER ACT 1989 - SECT 84Q

Priority of recordings

    (1)     For the purposes of determining the priority of recordings in relation to water shares, the Registrar must ensure that the time and date of lodgement of any document for the making of a recording in the water register is recorded.

S. 84Q(1A) inserted by No. 32/2010 s. 60(1).

    (1A)     If two or more documents for the making of a recording in relation to the same water share are lodged and are waiting recording, the Registrar may make the recordings in the water register arising from those documents in the order which will give effect to the intentions of all the parties, as expressed in or apparent to the Registrar from those documents.

S. 84Q(2) amended by No. 32/2010 s. 60(2).

    (2)     Subject to subsection (1A), the priority of documents lodged for the making of a recording in relation to a water share as between themselves is according to the time and date of lodgement.

    (3)     A recording takes effect at the date the recording is made.

Division 4—Recordings by the Minister

S. 84R inserted by No. 99/2005 s. 57.



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