13AApplication for licence by person who does not occupy land on which works are to be constructed

13A Application for licence by person who does not occupy land on which works are to be constructed

13A Application for licence by person who does not occupy land on which works are to be constructed

(1A) This section does not apply to or in respect of an existing work.

(1) Any occupier of land who desires to construct and use a work to which this Part extends (hereinafter in this section referred to as the supply work) for the purpose of domestic water supply, stock water supply or irrigation but does not occupy—

(a) the land on which the occupier desires to construct the supply work, or

(b) the whole of the land on which the occupier desires to construct works (hereinafter in this section referred to as the conveying works) to convey the water from the supply work to the land on which the occupier desires to use the water,

and who cannot obtain occupation of the land required for the supply work or conveying works may apply to the Ministerial Corporation in the form prescribed for a licence to construct the supply work and to take and use for the purpose or purposes specified in the application the water, if any, obtained thereby.

(2) The application shall be accompanied by—

(a) the prescribed deposit as security for the cost of investigation and inquiry in connection with the application, and such deposit may be applied by the Ministerial Corporation in payment or part payment of the licence fee payable by the applicant. In the event of the applicant withdrawing or abandoning the application, such deposit or any part thereof may in the discretion of the Ministerial Corporation be retained by it,

(b) the particulars set out in section 10 (3),

(c) plans showing—

(i) the location of the lands to be supplied with water in relation to the river or lake from which the water supply is to be obtained, and

(ii) the lands on which the supply work is proposed to be constructed, including the location of that work and the lands on which the conveying works are proposed to be constructed, including the location of those works,

(d) particulars of the supply work and the conveying works including all pipes, channels, regulators, flumes and other structures proposed to be constructed and used, and