82Geothermal energy operations on water authority land

82 Geothermal energy operations on water authority land

S. 82(1) substituted by No. 17/2012 s. 87.

(1) In this section, water authority means an Authority within the meaning of the Water Act 1989 that has a water district or a sewerage district under that Act.

(2) A person must not carry out any geothermal energy operation on any land that is owned, vested in or managed or controlled by a water authority without the written consent of the water authority.

(3) A person must not carry out any geothermal energy operation that involves work at a depth of more than 0·75 metres below any land that is within 100 metres of—

(a) a waterway that is owned by, vested in or managed or controlled by a water authority; or

(b) any main drains, sewers, aqueducts, channels or pipelines of a water authority—

without the written consent of the water authority.