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WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 21

Additional provisions

21 Additional provisions

The water sharing planning provisions of a management plan for a water management area or water source may also deal with the following matters:

(a) the rates, times and circumstances under which water may be taken from any water source in the area, or the quantity of water that may be taken from any water source in the area or delivered through the area,
(b) the kinds of water supply works that may be constructed and used in the area,
(c) the operation of water accounts for the area or water source, such as the carrying over of credits from one accounting period to the next, the maximum credit that may be allowed to accumulate in any account and the withdrawal of water from any account by reason of evaporation or dam spill or in such other circumstances as may be prescribed by the regulations,
(d) water sharing measures for the protection and enhancement of the quality of water in the water sources in the area or for the restoration or rehabilitation of water sources or their dependent ecosystems,
(e) measures to give effect to the water management principles and the objects of this Act,
(f) such other matters as are prescribed by the regulations.



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