Water Management (General) Regulation 2025
55Amendment of approvals to create more approvals
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55 Amendment of approvals to create more approvals
55 Amendment of approvals to create more approvals
For the Act, section 107(1)(b), the Minister may amend an approval to create 2 or more approvals from 1 approval if—
(a) a subdivision of the land specified in the approval as the land benefited by the approval results in—
(i) part of the land being held by the holder of the approval, and
(ii) another part of the land being held by a landholder who is not the holder of the approval, or
(b) for an approval jointly held by 2 or more persons—each person requests the creation of 2 or more approvals from the approval, or
(c) for a water supply work approval held by 1 person and nominated in a floodplain harvesting (regulated river) access licence or floodplain harvesting (unregulated river) access licence—
(i) the person requests the creation of 2 or more approvals from the approval, and
(ii) the resulting approvals do not relate to additional uses, works, activities or land, and
(iii) each resulting approval includes a work nominated in a floodplain harvesting (regulated river) access licence or floodplain harvesting (unregulated river) access licence.