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sec.370AWhen obligation to give underground water impact report does not apply—exemption for low risk resource tenures
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### sec.370A When obligation to give underground water impact report does not apply—exemption for low risk resource tenures
A regulation may identify circumstances in which a resource tenure is taken to be a low risk resource tenure for this division.
The circumstances may relate to 1 or more of the following—
the likely impacts of the exercise of underground water rights on water bores and springs;
the nature and scale of a mining or petroleum operation;
the characteristics of the underground water resource;
the location of the resource tenure.
The holder of a low risk resource tenure is not required to give the chief executive an underground water impact report under section 370 while the resource tenure remains a low risk resource tenure.
s 370A ins 2014 No. 64 s 81
(sec.370A-ssec.1) A regulation may identify circumstances in which a resource tenure is taken to be a low risk resource tenure for this division.
(sec.370A-ssec.2) The circumstances may relate to 1 or more of the following— the likely impacts of the exercise of underground water rights on water bores and springs; the nature and scale of a mining or petroleum operation; the characteristics of the underground water resource; the location of the resource tenure.
(sec.370A-ssec.3) The holder of a low risk resource tenure is not required to give the chief executive an underground water impact report under section 370 while the resource tenure remains a low risk resource tenure.
- (a) the likely impacts of the exercise of underground water rights on water bores and springs;
- (b) the nature and scale of a mining or petroleum operation;
- (c) the characteristics of the underground water resource;
- (d) the location of the resource tenure.