New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER ACT 1912 - SECT 171

171 Determination of applications

(1) The Ministerial Corporation is to determine an application for an approval:

(a) by granting an approval for the controlled work the subject of the application, or

(b) by refusing to grant an approval.

(2) The Ministerial Corporation must, as soon as practicable after it determines an application for an approval, cause notice of its determination to be served on the applicant.

(3) The Ministerial Corporation is not to grant an approval to the applicant or applicants if the whole or any part of the land on which the controlled work the subject of the application is situated or proposed to be constructed is not occupied by the applicant or by at least one of the applicants.

(4) This section does not apply in respect of any application for approval that is withdrawn before the application is determined.