WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 124A Appointment of groundwater area
WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 124A
Appointment of groundwater area
(1) The Minister may, by order, appoint, name and define a groundwater area.(1A) The order is a statutory rule.(2) The order may provide that groundwater may not be taken from that groundwater area without the authority of a licence and the order may have effect either generally or by reference to (a) a class of persons seeking to take groundwater; or(b) the amount of groundwater taken; or(c) the purpose for which it is taken; or(d) such other matters as the Minister thinks fit.(3) The order may provide that the whole or specified provisions of the order will not come into operation until a date specified in the order.