WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 398
Requirements for baseline assessment timetable
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 398
Requirements for baseline assessment timetable
398 Requirements for baseline assessment timetable
(1) If the resource tenure is a petroleum tenure, the baseline assessment
timetable must provide for a baseline assessment to be undertaken for each
water bore located in a priority area for the tenure by the earliest of the
following—
(a) before production testing starts, if—
(i) the bore in the
priority area is located within 2km of the production testing; and
(ii)
during the production testing, water will be taken from the aquifer supplying
the water bore;
(b) before production of petroleum starts in the priority
area;
(c) the day after a period of 30 days, whether continuous or not, of
undertaking production testing in the priority area.
(2) However, subsection
(1) (a) does not apply if the petroleum tenure holder obtains the written
agreement of the owner of the water bore to a baseline assessment being
undertaken on a later day.
(3) Subject to subsection (4) , if the resource
tenure is a mining tenure, the baseline assessment timetable must provide for
a baseline assessment to be undertaken for each water bore in a priority area
before the exercise of underground water rights in the priority area.
(4) If
the chief executive gives the holder of a mining tenure a notice under
section 394A(5) (a) , the baseline assessment timetable must state a day by
which a baseline assessment will be undertaken for each water bore in a
priority area.
(5) A baseline assessment timetable must state the rationale
for each date by which baseline assessments will be undertaken.