Water Management Act 1999
135HExemptions
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135H Exemptions
[Section 135H Inserted by No. 56 of 2008, s. 62, Applied:11 Feb 2009]
(1) The Minister may, by order, declare that a well works permit is not required for well works or a class of well works specified in the order.
(2) The order is a statutory rule.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1) , and without limiting the Minister's discretion, well works may be classified by reference to any or any combination of the following criteria:
(a) their purpose;
(b) their location;
(c) the amount of groundwater to be taken;
(d) their scale, design or method or time of construction;
(e) their undertaker.