WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 52
Domestic and stock rights
WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 52
Domestic and stock rights
52 Domestic and stock rights
(1) Subject to subsection (2), an owner or occupier of a landholding is
entitled, without the need for an access licence, water supply work approval
or water use approval--
(a) to take water from any river, estuary or lake to
which the land has frontage or from any aquifer underlying the land, and
(b)
to construct and use a water supply work for that purpose, and
(a) to take
or use water in contravention of any mandatory guidelines established under
section 336B, or
(b) to construct a dam or water bore without a water supply
work approval, or
(c) in the case of the owner or occupier of a landholding
arising from a subdivision effected on or after 1 July 2004, to take or use
water in contravention of any prohibition or restriction imposed by or under
the regulations (including any prohibition or restriction that the Minister is
authorised by the regulations to impose), or
(d) to carry out a controlled
activity without a controlled activity approval.
(3) In this section--
"domestic consumption" , in relation to land, means consumption for normal
household purposes in domestic premises situated on the land.
"stock watering" , in relation to land, means the watering of stock animals
being raised on the land, but does not include the use of water in connection
with the raising of stock animals on an intensive commercial basis that are
housed or kept in feedlots or buildings for all (or a substantial part) of the
period during which the stock animals are being raised.