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STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 3

Interpretation

(1)
In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"approved expenditure" means expenditure in connexion with the measurement of discharge of rivers, or the investigation and measurement of underground water resources, being expenditure approved by the Minister under section 7 of this Act.

"discharge", in relation to a river in a State, means the volume of water that flows past a point or place in the course of the river during an interval of time.

"measurement" includes the recording, arrangement, analysis or publication of information obtained by measurement.

"river" means a surface river and includes any surface watercourse.

"Schedule" means Schedule to this Act.

(2)
For the purposes of this Act, each of the following years is a year to which this Act applies:

(a)
the year ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-one; and
(b)
each of the next two succeeding years.

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