South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person
exercising a right of access to or through pastoral land pursuant to this
Act—
(a) may
take water from any natural source or storage point on the land, but only so
much as is sufficient for his or her personal or domestic needs; and
(b) in
the case of a person travelling with stock, may permit the stock access to
water on the land, subject to compliance with such directions as the lessee
may give.
(2) The holder of a
mining tenement over pastoral land may, with the approval of the Board, take
reasonable quantities of water from any natural source or storage point on the
land for mining, personal or domestic purposes, but not so as to deprive the
lessee of the water necessary for all of the lessee's purposes.
(3) A person who takes
water pursuant to subsection (2) is liable to pay compensation to the
lessee in accordance with the regulations.
(4)
Subsections (1) and (2) do not entitle a person to take water from a
domestic rainwater tank.
(5) This section is
subject to the Natural Resources Management Act 2004 .