Water Management (General) Regulation 2025
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In this division—
bore licence means a bore licence under the 1912 Act, Part 5.
crop conversion rate means the conversion rate—
(a) specified in the Volumetric Conversion—the next stage, Appendix 2, as in force from time to time and published on the Department’s website, and
(b) expressed in units of a share component per hectare.
eligible floodplain landholder means a floodplain landholder who is eligible for a replacement floodplain harvesting access licence under section 34.
eligible water supply work means a water supply work specified in section 34(1).
floodplain landholder means the owner of land located on a floodplain who uses or used, or proposed to use, water from the floodplain.
long-term average annual extraction limit, for a water source, means the long-term average annual extraction limit specified in a Minister’s plan applying to the water source.
maximum crop area means the maximum area of land in hectares used by an owner of land for the growing of crops using irrigation.
relevant year means a year from 1993 to 1999 in which the greatest maximum crop area occurred on a landholder’s land.