WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 184 Holder may apply to amend resource operations licence or distribution operations licence

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 184

184 Holder may apply to amend resource operations licence or distribution operations licence

(1) The holder of a resource operations licence or distribution operations licence may apply to amend the licence.

(2) The application must—

(a) be made to the chief executive in the approved form; and

(b) provide details of the amendment; and

(c) state the impact of the proposed amendment; and

(d) be accompanied by—

(i) the fee prescribed by regulation; and

(ii) if the application is not by the owner of the infrastructure—the owner’s written consent.

(3) The chief executive may approve the amendment if the chief executive is satisfied—

(a) if the licence is for water managed under a water plan—the amendment is consistent with the water plan outcomes, measures or objectives of the plan; and

(b) the impact of the amendment can be satisfactorily mitigated.

(4) Subsections (5) to (7) apply if—

(a) the licence is a resource operations licence; and

(b) the proposed amendment is or includes a change to the environmental management rules for the licence; and

(c) the chief executive refuses to approve all or part of the change to the rules.

(5) The chief executive must give the holder of the resource operations licence notice of the refusal.

(6) The holder may, in writing, ask the chief executive to refer the proposed change to the rules to a referral panel.

(7) Section 184A includes the procedure relating to a request made under subsection (6) .

(8) If the chief executive approves the amendment, the chief executive must give the holder of the resource operations licence or distribution operations licence notice of the approval.

(9) If the chief executive refuses to approve the amendment, the chief executive must give the holder of the resource operations licence or distribution operations licence notice of the refusal and the reasons for it.