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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.