South Australian Consolidated Regulations South Australian Consolidated Regulations1 A proclamation was made pursuant to section 41 of the Water Resources Act
1976 (the 1976 Act ) declaring an area of the State to be the Northern
Adelaide Plains Proclaimed Region for the purposes of that Act.
2 Schedule 3, clause 2 of the Water Resources Act 1997 (the
"current Act") provides—
(a) that a proclamation under section 41 of the 1976 Act in force immediately
before the commencement of the current Act continues in force as though the
proclamation declared the existing and future wells in its Proclaimed Region
to be prescribed wells; and
(b) that such a proclamation may be varied or revoked by regulation as though
it were a regulation under section 8(1) of the current Act.
3 It is now appropriate to make a regulation under section 8 of the current
Act declaring a number of wells situated in a part of the State that is
adjacent to the northern boundary of the Northern Adelaide Plains Proclaimed
Region to be prescribed wells.
4 The regulations to be made under the current Act will (among other things)
have the effect—
(a) of varying the area of the Northern Adelaide Plains Proclaimed Region by
adding an area specified in the regulations to the Proclaimed Region; and
(b) of re-naming the whole of that area as the Northern Adelaide Plains
Prescribed Wells Area in keeping with practices under the current Act.