WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 8C
Adaptive environmental water through system improvements
WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 8C
Adaptive environmental water through system improvements
8C Adaptive environmental water through system improvements
(1) The Minister may grant an access licence of a category or subcategory
determined by the Minister to the Minister, Local Land Services or another
public body, without the need for an application to be made for the licence in
accordance with Part 2 of Chapter 3, so long as--
(a) works or other actions
result in water savings in the system being made in the water source in
respect of which the licence is granted, and
(b) the share component of the
licence is equivalent to the value of water savings in the system made, and
(c) an adaptive environmental water condition is imposed on the licence.
(2)
In this section,
"system" means that part of a water source to which a management plan applies
that is not identified by the plan for commitments to basic landholder rights
and for sharing and extraction under any other rights.
