WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 449 Chief executive may direct resource tenure holder to carry out water monitoring activities

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 449

449 Chief executive may direct resource tenure holder to carry out water monitoring activities

(1) The chief executive may give notice to the resource tenure holder to carry out a water monitoring activity for a stated area.

(2) In deciding to give the notice, the chief executive must have regard to the impact considerations relating to the holder.

(3) The notice must state the following—

(a) a reasonable timetable for carrying out the water monitoring activity;

(b) a program for reporting to the office and the chief executive about the implementation of the activity;

(c) the parameters to be measured in carrying out the activity;

(d) the locations for taking the measurements;

(e) the frequency of the measurements.

(4) The holder must comply with the notice, unless the holder has a reasonable excuse.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.

(5) In this section—


"water monitoring activity" , for a resource tenure, means gathering information about, or monitoring, the effects of the exercise of underground water rights by the holder of the tenure.