20YInvalidation of applications for entitlements

20Y Invalidation of applications for entitlements

20Y Invalidation of applications for entitlements

(1) Where the Ministerial Corporation is satisfied that a water source which is subject to a scheme is unlikely to have more water available than is sufficient to meet the requirements of the persons already authorised by law to take water from the water source and such other possible requirements for water from the water source as are determined by the Ministerial Corporation, it may, by a notice published in the Gazette (and in such other manner as the Ministerial Corporation is satisfied is likely to bring the notice to the attention of members of the public in the district in which the water source is located), declare that, on and from a date specified in the notice (being the date of publication in the Gazette or a later date)—

(a) no applications made after the date on which the notice is so published for entitlements, and

(b) no applications made after the date on which the notice is so published—

(i) for additional licences made under the proviso to section 18 (2),

(ii) for amended authorities made under section 20E (2) (a), or

(iii) for amended group licences referred to in section 20Q (2) (a),

will be granted until the notice is revoked by a subsequent notice so published.

(1A) A declaration under subsection (1) may relate—

(a) to a specified application for an entitlement,

(b) to all applications for entitlements,

(c) to a specified class of applications for entitlements, or

(d) to all applications for entitlements other than a specified application for an entitlement or a specified class of applications for entitlements.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to an application for an entitlement, or to applications for entitlements, in replacement of an entitlement if the water allocation in respect of the replacement entitlement or, as the case may be, the total water allocations in respect of the replacement entitlements will not exceed the water allocation in respect of the entitlement that is being replaced or, as the case may be, the total water allocations in respect of the entitlements that are being replaced.