384Definitions

384 Definitions (1) In this Part— ***Authority*** has the same meaning as in the **Water Act 1989**; ***bed and banks***, in relation to a watercourse— (a) includes the land over which the water in the watercourse normally flows and the land that is normally covered by that water; (b) does not include land abutting on or adjacent to the bed and banks that is from time to time temporarily covered by floodwaters from the watercourse; S. 384(1) def. of *metropolis* substituted by No. 85/2006 s. 173(Sch. 1 item 2.3). ***metropolis*** means the waterway management district of Melbourne Water Corporation under the **Water Act 1989**; S. 384(1) def. of *port of Melbourne operator* inserted by No. 10/2016 s. 172. ***port of Melbourne operator*** has the same meaning as in the **Port Management Act 1995**; ***watercourse*** means any river, creek, stream, watercourse, lake, lagoon, swamp or marsh. (2) The reference in the definition of ***watercourse*** in subsection (1) to lake, lagoon, swamp or marsh is a reference to— (a) a natural collection of water into or through or out of which a current that forms the whole or part of the flow of a river, creek, stream or watercourse passes continuously or intermittently; or (b) a collection of water (other than water collected and contained in a dam or tank on private land or a natural depression on private land) that the Governor in Council, by Order published in the Government Gazette, declares to be a lake, lagoon, swamp or marsh for the purposes of this Part. New s. 385 inserted by No. 80/1989 s. 327.