This legislation has been repealed.
(1) An application or
consent referred to in this Part will be taken to have been signed by a
majority of the owners of the irrigated properties to which the application or
consent relates if—
(a) it
has been signed by or on behalf of a majority of the owners of those
properties; and
(b) the
aggregate of the water allocations applying to the properties owned by the
signatories is more than one-half of the aggregate of the water allocations
applying to all of the properties to which the application or consent relates.
(2) For the purposes
of subsection (1)(a) where an irrigated property is owned by two or more
persons—
(a) an
application or consent will be taken to have been signed by the owners of that
property if it has been signed by or on behalf of all of them; and
(b) the
signatures of the owners of that property will be counted as one signature.