(1) If at any time during the currency of a group licence the Ministerial
Corporation is satisfied that:
(a) the Board holding the group licence or any
of the group licence occupiers has conserved, diverted, taken or used any
quantity of water in excess of the quantity authorised by the group licence,
(b) any land has been irrigated as to an area in excess of that authorised by
the group licence,
(d) the Board
holding the group licence or any of the group licence occupiers has
contravened or failed to comply with any of the terms, limitations or
conditions to which the licence is subject,
(e) any water diverted, taken or
used by the Board holding the group licence or by any of the
group licence occupiers is not being beneficially used or is being wasted,
(f) beneficial use is not being made of the work in respect of which the
group licence is held, or
(g) the Board holding the group licence has failed
to pay by the due date the second or any subsequent instalment of the fee
payable in respect of the issue or renewal of the group licence,
the
Ministerial Corporation may serve on the Board a notice that, after the
expiration of a period specified in the notice, the group licence will be
revoked, suspended or modified as indicated in the notice, and where any such
notice is served, unless the Ministerial Corporation annuls or withdraws the
notice before the expiration of the period so specified, the group licence
shall, on the expiration of that period, be deemed to be revoked, suspended or
modified, as the case may be.
(2) If in the opinion of the Ministerial
Corporation there are circumstances which render it necessary or expedient:
(a) that any group licence should be suspended or modified,
(b) that the
quantity of water authorised to be taken under any group licence should be
reduced, or
(c) that a right held under any group licence for the taking of
water for any purpose from a river, lake or section of a river should be
restricted or suspended,
the Ministerial Corporation may serve on the Board
which holds the group licence a notice to that effect, and where any such
notice is served, the group licence shall be deemed to be suspended or
modified, or the quantity of water reduced or, as the case may be, the right
restricted or suspended, according to the tenor of the notice.
(3) If the
Ministerial Corporation is satisfied that the Board which holds a
group licence has failed to comply with, or to cause to be complied with, the
terms of a notice served by the Ministerial Corporation whereby:
(b) the quantity of water authorised to be
taken under the group licence has been reduced, or
(c) a right held under the
group licence for the taking of water for any purpose from a river, lake or
section of a river has been restricted or suspended,
the Ministerial
Corporation may serve on the Board a notice that, after the expiration of a
period specified in the notice, the group licence will be suspended, and where
any such notice is served, unless the Ministerial Corporation annuls or
withdraws the notice before the expiration of the period so specified, the
group licence shall, on the expiration of that period, be deemed to be
suspended.
(4) Service of a notice under this section may be effected on a
Board:
(a) by delivering the notice to the principal place of business of the
Board,
(b) by leaving the notice with any person apparently of or above the
age of 14 years who is apparently employed by the Board, or
(c) by letter
sent by post and addressed to the Board at its address last known to the
Ministerial Corporation.
(5) A reference in this section to modification of a
group licence is not limited to a modification by way of restriction.
