(1) Where the Ministerial Corporation decides to grant an application made
under this Part or under the Irrigation Corporations Act 1994 for the issue of
an entitlement which will authorise the taking of water from a water source
which is subject to a scheme, it shall:
(a) determine in respect of the
entitlement the maximum quantity of water which may, subject to this Division,
be taken from the water source in any year for the purpose or purposes for
which the entitlement is to be issued, and
(b) include in the entitlement a
condition that, except where the operation of the condition is deemed to be
suspended under section 20AA (2), on and from the date on which the
entitlement is to have effect and in respect of each year during which the
scheme is in force, not more than the maximum quantity of water determined in
respect of the entitlement under paragraph (a) and specified in the condition
(as may be modified from time to time under this Division) shall be taken from
that water source during any year under the entitlement for the purpose or
purposes specified in the entitlement.
(2) The provisions of section 20X (3),
(3A) and (4) shall apply in relation to the determination of a
water allocation under subsection (1) (a) in the same way as those provisions
apply in relation to the determination of a water allocation under section 20X
(2) (b).
(3) Where any entitlement becomes effective on a date falling after
the beginning of a year, the quantity of water determined under subsection (1)
(a) in respect of the entitlement shall, for that year, be deemed to be
reduced by the proportion that the part of that year which has elapsed at that
date bears to the whole of that year and the condition included in the
entitlement in accordance with subsection (1) (b) shall be construed
accordingly.
(4) Notwithstanding anything in this Part, a determination made
under subsection (1) (a) in respect of an entitlement and a condition included
in that entitlement in accordance with subsection (1) (b) shall not be the
subject of an objection or appeal under this Part.
