New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER MANAGEMENT (IRRIGATION CORPORATIONS) SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL REGULATION 1995 - REG 6

6 Fees for issue of irrigation corporation licences

(1) This clause applies to each of the following corporations on and from its establishment as an irrigation corporation:

(a) Jemalong Wyldes Plains Irrigation Limited,

(b) Lower Murray Irrigation Areas Limited,

(c) Murray Irrigation Limited,

(d) Coleambally Irrigation Corporation,

(e) Murrumbidgee Irrigation Corporation.

(2) For the purposes of section 47 (2) of the Irrigation Corporations Act 1994 , as continued in force by clause 11, the fee for the issue of an irrigation corporation licence is to be determined by the Ministerial Corporation.

(3) The amount of the fee is to be calculated having regard to:

(a) the costs and expenses relating to the issue of the licence, including the formulation of the licence conditions and the preparation of any documents referred to in those conditions, and

(b) such other matters as the Ministerial Corporation determines to be relevant to the administration of the licensing system, other than matters for which an annual licence fee may be imposed.

(4) The amount of the fee must not exceed the sum of the following amounts:

(a) $2,634 for the first 162 hectares (or part) of the area of irrigable land,

(b) $15 for each additional 2 hectares (or part) by which the area of irrigable land exceeds 162 hectares.