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Water Management Act 2000
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#### 370A Certain activities excluded
370A Certain activities excluded
> > (1) The Court must not find an individual has contravened a civil penalty provision if the individual’s conduct was one or more of the following—
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> > > (a) taking water for domestic consumption or stock watering,
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> > > (b) installing a flood work solely to protect a dwelling,
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> > > (c) undertaking, for the sole purpose of providing access to a dwelling, a controlled activity that does not involve impounding water,
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> > > (d) an activity prescribed by the regulations.
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> > (2) This section does not apply to an individual taken to have contravened a civil penalty provision in accordance with section 370C or 370D.
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> > (3) In this section—
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> > domestic consumption, in relation to land, includes domestic consumption within the meaning of section 52.
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> > stock watering, in relation to land, includes stock watering within the meaning of section 52.
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> **s 370A:** Ins 2025 No 70, Sch 3\[138\].