WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 747 Power to enter land in relation to information collection

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 747

747 Power to enter land in relation to information collection

(1) An authorised officer may, at any reasonable time, enter land—

(a) if there is monitoring equipment on the land—

(i) to read the equipment; or

(ii) to recalibrate, repair or replace the equipment; or

(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply—to calculate or measure on the land rainfall, water flow, water levels or for assessing the effects of water use on land and water; or

(c) to take samples of soil or water from the land; or

(d) to construct monitoring equipment on the land; or

(e) to retrieve or decommission monitoring equipment previously constructed on the land.

(2) An authorised officer may, at any reasonable time, enter land—

(a) to calculate or measure other resources on the land; or

(b) to take samples of the resources from the land; or

(c) to measure the health of watercourses, lakes, springs and aquifers.

(3) An authorised officer may, at any reasonable time, enter land of an owner of land authorised under section 96 to take water, to do 1 or more of the following—

(a) calculate or measure the amount of, and rate at which, water is being taken or interfered with;

(b) ascertain the purpose for which the water is being taken or interfered with;

(c) ascertain the location from which water is being taken.

(4) An authorised officer may, at any reasonable time, enter land to collect information required to assess the condition of, or the impact of the exercise of underground water rights on, an aquifer, spring or water bore.

(5) For exercising a power mentioned in this section, an authorised officer may enter and cross any land to access land mentioned this section.