WATER ACT 1912 - SECT 117G Borrowing and carrying over

WATER ACT 1912 - SECT 117G

117G Borrowing and carrying over

(1) The Ministerial Corporation may, at the written request of a licensee, vary the licensee's water allocations for the current year and the following year so as to allow the licensee:

(a) to use during the current year the whole or any part of the licensee's water allocation for the following year, or

(b) to use during the following year the whole or any part of the unused portion of the licensee's water allocation for the current year,

and the licensee's water allocations for those years are taken to be varied accordingly.

(2) The Ministerial Corporation may, at the request of a licensee, vary the licensee's water allocations for the current year and the previous year so as to allow the licensee to use during the current year the whole or any part of the unused portion of the licensee's water allocation for the previous year, and the licensee's water allocations for those years are taken to be varied accordingly.

(3) In this section,
"unused portion" , in relation to a water allocation, means such part of the water allocation as has not been used during the year to which it relates.