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Water Act 1989
358ATransition to external place of take approval for certain approvals under section 33AI
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358A Transition to external place of take approval for certain approvals under section 33AI
(1) On the commencement day, a person who, immediately before the commencement day, was the holder of a transitioning section 33AI approval, is taken to hold an external place of take approval.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the external place of take approval is taken to be—
(a) an approval to take water from the same place as that to which the transitioning section 33AI approval applied; and
(b) subject to the same terms and conditions (if any) as those that applied to the transitioning section 33AI approval.
***transitioning section 33AI approval*** means an approval under section 33AI, as in force before the commencement day, to take water from a place—
(a) that is outside Victoria; or
(b) that is not in a declared water system.