WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 813
Contravening licence condition
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 813
Contravening licence condition
813 Contravening licence condition
(1) A holder of a resource operations licence, a distribution operations
licence, an interim resource operations licence or an operations licence must
not contravene a condition of the licence.
Penalty—
Maximum
penalty—1,665 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a
contravention for which a licence has been cancelled.
(3) Subsection (4)
applies if—
(a) the resource operations licence authorises the holder of the
licence to interfere with the flow of water to the extent necessary to operate
a dam; and
(b) a condition of the licence relates to the full supply level
for the dam; and
(c) under the Water Supply Act —
(i) a declaration is in
force for a temporary full supply level for the dam under chapter 4 , part 3
of that Act; or
(ii) the full supply level for the dam is reduced under
chapter 4 , part 4 of that Act.
(4) A reference in the resource operations
licence to the full supply level for the dam is taken to be a reference to—
(a) if a declaration is in force for a temporary full supply level—the
temporary full supply level declared for the dam; or
(b) if the full supply
level for the dam is reduced—the reduced full supply level; or
(c) if both
paragraphs (a) and (b) apply to the dam—the lower of the temporary full
supply level and the reduced full supply level.
