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Water Management Act 2000
77ACancellation of access licences that can no longer be used or are no longer required
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#### 77A Cancellation of access licences that can no longer be used or are no longer required
77A Cancellation of access licences that can no longer be used or are no longer required
> > (1) The Minister is to cancel a supplementary water access licence when the relevant management plan ceases to make provision for the extraction of water under such an access licence unless the access licence is a regulated river supplementary water access licence.
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> > (2) The Minister is to cancel a specific purpose access licence if the Minister is of the opinion that the purpose for which the licence was granted no longer exists.
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> > (2A) Subsection (2) does not apply to—
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> > > (a) an access licence in relation to which action is taken by the Minister under section 8D, or
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> > > (b) a supplementary water (Lowbidgee) access licence.
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> > (3) The regulations may prescribe criteria which the Minister is to consider when determining under subsection (2) whether the purpose for which a specific purpose access licence was granted no longer exists.
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> > (4) The Minister is to cancel an access licence of a category prescribed by regulations referred to in section 57 (1) (l) (other than a specific purpose access licence) if the regulations prescribe the period for which such a licence is to have effect and the period has expired.
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> > (5) The Minister is to cancel an access licence if the period for which the licence is to have effect was specified in an order under section 65 and the period has expired.
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> > (6) The Minister may cancel any access licence of which the Minister is the holder.
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> **s 77A:** Ins 2004 No 39, Sch 4 \[16\]. Am 2005 No 118, Sch 1 \[30\]; 2008 No 73, Sch 6 \[2\]; 2014 No 48, Sch 1.2 \[4\]; 2024 No 80, Sch 1\[3\].