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344 Transitional provision—Sustainable Water Strategies—Water and Catchment Legislation Amendment Act 2019
(1) Subject to subsection (2), on and from the commencement day Division 1B of Part 3 as amended by the **Water and Catchment Legislation Amendment Act 2019** applies in relation to an uncompleted Sustainable Water Strategy, to that part of the process that has not been completed.
(2) On and from the commencement day the following provisions as in force immediately before the commencement day apply to an uncompleted Sustainable Water Strategy—
(a) section 22D(2);
(b) section 22E(b).
***commencement day*** means the day on which section 9 of the **Water and Catchment Legislation Amendment Act 2019** comes into operation;
***uncompleted Sustainable Water Strategy*** means a draft of a Sustainable Water Strategy that is being prepared under Division 1B of Part 3 but that has not been endorsed as a Sustainable Water Strategy under section 22G(1) before the commencement day.
S. 345 inserted by No. 23/2019 s. 99.