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WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 37

37 Notice of works and water use

(1) This section applies to works for taking or interfering with water under section 20(6).

(2) A regulation may require the owner of land on which the works are, or are to be, constructed to notify the chief executive of the works and the water use or, for works to be constructed, proposed water use, in relation to the works.

(3) The regulation--

(a) may require the notice to be in the approved form; and
(b) must state--
(i) the part of the State to which the regulation applies; and
(ii) the type of works required to be notified, including the purpose and size of the works; and
(iii) whether the notice relates to 1 or more of the following--
(A) existing works;
(B) works that have been under construction for more than a stated period of time;
(C) on their completion, works constructed in the future; and
(iv) the day by which the notice must be given to the chief executive.

(4) As soon as practicable after the regulation is made, the chief executive must conduct public meetings in the part of the State to which the regulation applies to explain the requirements of the regulation to land owners.



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