WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 55
Native title rights
WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 55
Native title rights
55 Native title rights
(1) A native title holder is entitled, without the need for an access licence,
water supply work approval or water use approval, to take and use water in the
exercise of native title rights.
(2) This section does not authorise a native
title holder--
(a) to construct a dam or water bore without a water supply
work approval, or
(b) to construct or use a water supply work otherwise than
on land that he or she owns.
(3) The maximum amount of water that can be
taken or used by a native title holder in any one year for domestic and
traditional purposes is the amount prescribed by the regulations.
