New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER ACT 1912 - SECT 113

113 Application for licence

(1) Application for a licence for any new bore, or for enlarging, deepening, or altering any existing bore, shall be made to the Ministerial Corporation in the form prescribed, accompanied by the prescribed plans and descriptions, together with a statement of the purposes for which it is proposed to utilise the water.

(2) On application being so made, and if in the opinion of the Ministerial Corporation the bore is or will be an artesian bore or the circumstances so warrant, the Ministerial Corporation shall cause to be advertised once in the Gazette and once in a public newspaper circulating in the neighbourhood where the bore or the site thereof is situate a notice:

(a) acknowledging the receipt of the application, and

(b) requesting all persons interested to inform the Ministerial Corporation whether they support the application or object thereto, and if they do so object, the reasons therefor, and

(c) stating the last day on which such information will be received and the name or official designation and address of the person to whom it should be sent.

(3) An application for a licence in respect of any bore that was constructed before the commencement of this subsection (as inserted by the Water Legislation Amendment Act 1999 ) is not required to be advertised in accordance with subsection (2).