Water Management Act 1999
164ZDDetails of dam operating notice
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164ZD Details of dam operating notice
[Section 164ZD Inserted by No. 33 of 2015, s. 20, Applied:01 Jan 2016] A dam operating notice –
(a) is to specify the person to whom it is issued by name or by a description of the person sufficient to identify him or her; and
(b) is to specify the reasons for its issue; and
(c) may require the person to whom it is issued to take the measures specified in it for one or more of the following purposes:
(i) to ensure that the operation of the dam will not have a significant adverse impact on other water users or cause material environmental harm or serious environmental harm;
(ii) to prevent the inundation of land not owned by the owner of the dam; and
(d) may contain the conditions, determined by the Minister, to which it is subject.