31Interim water management plan

31 Interim water management plan

(1)  The Minister, by notice published in the Gazette, may declare that a draft water management plan referred to in a notice under section 25(1) is to have effect as an interim water management plan.

(1A)  [Section 31 Subsection (1A) inserted by No. 56 of 2008, s. 18, Applied:11 Feb 2009] The notice is not a statutory rule.

(2)  A notice under subsection (1) is to state the date on which the interim plan is to take effect.

(3)  An interim plan has the same effect as a plan adopted under section 28 .

(4)  An interim plan ceases to have effect on –

(a) a date specified in a notice under subsection (1) for that purpose or, if no such date is specified, 12 months after the date on which it took effect; or

(b) the date on which a water management plan in respect of the relevant water resource takes effect –

whichever first occurs.