(1) The Ministerial Corporation may, by order published in the Gazette,
declare any sub-surface water basin, or any part thereof, to be a restricted
sub-surface water area.
(2) The Ministerial Corporation may, by a like order,
at any time:
(a) vary, whether as to the whole or any part, or revoke the
order of any restricted sub-surface water area, or
(a) the Ministerial Corporation may by order in
writing direct the licensee of any bore, whether sunk or commenced to be sunk
before or after the proclamation of the restricted sub-surface water area:
(i)
to restrict or control the rate of flow or pumping or the manner of extraction
of water from the bore, or the quantity of water which may be allowed to flow
or be pumped therefrom in any stated period of time or its usage,
(ii) to
take such measures or precautions as may be specified in the order for the
protection of the quality and prevention of pollution or contamination of any
sub-surface water wherever pollution or contamination, in the opinion of the
Ministerial Corporation, is or may be caused by abandoned, defective or
improperly constructed bores through the interconnection of strata or the
introduction of unsuitable surface water into the sub-surface water,
(iii) to
furnish to the Ministerial Corporation at such intervals as may be specified
in the order a report of static water level in the bore from a point of
measurement predetermined by the Ministerial Corporation and of the quantities
of water pumped from the bore,
(iv) to provide, fit and maintain a metering
or measuring device acceptable to the Ministerial Corporation which will
adequately and continuously record the quantity of water flowing or pumped
from a bore from which water is used,
and may, in any such order, set forth
such requirements as it deems necessary for proper compliance with a direction
contained therein,
(b) the Ministerial Corporation may by order in writing to
the licensee of any bore referred to in paragraph (a):
(i) specify the minimum
distance or distances at which any bore may be sunk from any other bore or
bores wheresoever situate,
(ii) direct the licensee of any bore the sinking
of which is completed after the proclamation of the restricted
sub-surface water area and from which water is to be used for other than
stock, domestic or home garden purposes to furnish to the Ministerial
Corporation within ninety days of completion of equipping the bore such
detailed particulars of the equipment installed, including the capacity of any
pump, as the Ministerial Corporation may require.