WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 58
Priorities between different categories of licence
WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 58
Priorities between different categories of licence
58 Priorities between different categories of licence
(1) For the purposes of this Act, the following priorities are to be observed
in relation to access licences--
(a) local water utility access licences,
major utility access licences and domestic and stock access licences have
priority over all other access licences,
(b) regulated river (high security)
access licences have priority over all other access licences (other than those
referred to in paragraph (a)),
(c) access licences (other than those referred
to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (d)) have priority between themselves as
prescribed by the regulations,
(d) supplementary water access licences have
priority below all other licences.
(2) If one access licence (the
"higher priority licence" ) has priority over another access licence (the
"lower priority licence" ), then if the water allocations under them have to
be diminished, the water allocations of the higher priority licence are to be
diminished at a lesser rate than the water allocations of the
lower priority licence.
(3) In relation to the water management area or water
source to which it applies, a management plan may provide for different rules
of priority to those established by subsection (1).
(4) If a management plan
so provides for different rules of priority, those different rules are taken
to have been established by this section.
