may apply to the Ministerial Corporation in the form prescribed for a licence
to construct and use the said work, and to take and use for the purposes
specified in the application the water, if any, conserved or obtained thereby,
and to dispose of such water for the use of occupiers of land for any purpose.
(1A) An application for a licence may be made under subsection (1) by a person
who proposes to construct or use any such work as is referred to in that
subsection subject to the person obtaining the right to occupy the site of the
work, and for all purposes of or relating to such application such person
shall be deemed to be an occupier:
Provided that a licence shall not be issued upon any application made under
the authority of this subsection unless and until the applicant has obtained
the right to occupy the site of the work.
(2) Except in the case of an
application for a licence in respect of an existing work, the application
shall be accompanied by the prescribed deposit as security for the cost of
investigation and inquiry in connection with the application, and such deposit
may be applied by the Ministerial Corporation in payment or part payment of
the licence fee payable by the applicant.
In the event of the applicant withdrawing or abandoning the application, such
deposit or any part thereof may in the discretion of the Ministerial
Corporation be retained by it.
(3) An application for a licence for a work
constructed or used or proposed to be constructed or used for the purpose of
irrigation or water supply shall be accompanied by:
(a) particulars as to the
means (by gravitation pumping or otherwise) by which water is to be taken from
the river or lake,
(b) particulars of the maximum rate at which water may be
taken from the river or lake,
(c) particulars of the estimated quantity of
water proposed to be taken annually,
(d) particulars of the purpose or
purposes for which the water is to be used, and
(e) if the work is for the
purpose of irrigation, particulars of the area and location of the land
proposed to be irrigated, the class or classes of crops proposed to be grown
thereon, the works proposed to be provided for the distribution of the water
to the land to be irrigated and the work proposed to be undertaken in the
preparation of such land for irrigation.
