WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 388
Effect of approved underground water impact report
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 388
Effect of approved underground water impact report
388 Effect of approved underground water impact report
(1) On the day an approved underground water impact report takes effect, the
following cease to apply—
(a) if the report relates to a cumulative
management area other than an area that is within a closing CMA tenure—any
existing underground water impact report relating to the cumulative management
area or a resource tenure within the area identified in the CMA gazette notice
for the area;
(b) if the report relates to a closing CMA tenure or a resource
tenure other than a CMA tenure—any existing underground water impact report
relating to the resource tenure.
(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent
proceedings being started or continued for an offence under section 390for a
failure to comply with an underground water impact report that has ceased
applying under subsection (1) , if the failure to comply happened when the
report was in effect.
(3) In this section—
"CMA gazette notice" , for a cumulative management area, means the gazette
notice under section 365declaring the area to be a cumulative management
area.