124AAppointment of groundwater area

124A Appointment of groundwater area

[Section 124A Inserted by No. 12 of 2004, s. 34, Applied:09 Jun 2004]

(1)  [Section 124A Subsection (1) amended by No. 56 of 2008, s. 57, Applied:11 Feb 2009] The Minister may, by order, appoint, name and define a groundwater area.

(1A)  [Section 124A Subsection (1A) inserted by No. 56 of 2008, s. 57, Applied:11 Feb 2009] The order is a statutory rule.

(2)  The order may provide that groundwater may not be taken from that groundwater area without the authority of a licence and the order may have effect either generally or by reference to –

(a) a class of persons seeking to take groundwater; or

(b) the amount of groundwater taken; or

(c) the purpose for which it is taken; or

(d) [Section 124A Subsection (2) amended by No. 56 of 2008, s. 57, Applied:11 Feb 2009] such other matters as the Minister thinks fit.

(3)  The order may provide that the whole or specified provisions of the order will not come into operation until a date specified in the order.