WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 1089
Existing authorities to take, or interfere with, water
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 1089
Existing authorities to take, or interfere with, water
1089 Existing authorities to take, or interfere with, water
(1) This section applies if a former water board, customer of a
former water board or the chief executive was authorised under the repealed
Acts or another Act to take or interfere with water.
(2) If the authority was
given under 1 of the repealed Acts, it continues under that Act as if that Act
had not been repealed until whichever of the following first happens—
(a)
the chief executive grants a water licence to replace the authority;
(b) the
authority is replaced with a water entitlement, interim resource operations
licence, resource operations licence or distribution operations licence.
(3)
If the authority was given under another Act, it continues under that Act
until whichever of the following first happens—
(a) the chief executive
grants a water licence to replace the authority;
(b) the authority is
replaced with a water entitlement, interim resource operations licence,
resource operations licence or distribution operations licence.
(3A) An
authority continued under subsection (2) or (3) is taken to also be an
authority under this Act to take or interfere with water.
(4) The chief
executive may grant a water licence under subsection (2)(a) or (3)(a) without
the need for an application to be made under section 206.
(5) Within 30
business days after the chief executive grants the licence, the chief
executive must give the licensee the licence and an information notice about
the granting of the licence.
(6) The licence has effect from the day the
licence is given to the licensee.