New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER MANAGEMENT (IRRIGATION CORPORATIONS) SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL REGULATION 1995 - REG 7

7 Annual fees for 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) The Ministerial Corporation may impose an annual fee for an irrigation corporation licence by means of a notice in writing served on the licensee.

(3) The amount of the annual fee is to be determined by the Ministerial Corporation, having regard to its estimate of the following costs:

(a) the costs of reviewing the terms and conditions of the licence in accordance with section 57 of the Irrigation Corporations Act 1994 , as continued in force by clause 11,

(b) the costs of monitoring compliance with the terms and conditions of the licence,

(c) the costs of carrying out quality control work in connection with obligations arising from the terms and conditions of the licence, including testing equipment and carrying out independent checks on data provided by the licensee.

(4) Payment of an annual licence fee:

(a) is due on the date (or, if the Ministerial Corporation determines that it may be paid by instalments, on the dates), and

(b) is to be made in the manner,

specified in the notice by which the fee is imposed.

(5) If a licensee fails to pay an instalment by the due date, the whole of the unpaid amount of the annual licence fee becomes payable immediately.