Water Management Regulations 2019
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6 Field management fees
(1) A licensee is to pay an annual field management fee in accordance with this regulation for a water allocation on a licence authorising the taking of water –
(a) into a dam constructed in or on a watercourse; and
(b) between 1 May and 30 November in any year (inclusive of both of those days).
(2) Where –
(a) water is taken into a dam constructed in or on a watercourse; or
(b) there is more than one water allocation of a licence authorising the taking of water during the period referred to in subregulation (1) and at least one of the allocations is taken into a dam constructed in or on a watercourse –
the licensee is to pay an annual field management fee in accordance with the following table:
| Region | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | | Fee units | 39.2 | 33.4 | 22.8 | 74.1 | 41.6 | 128.9 | 37.4 | 105.7 |
(3) Where water is, in any case other than the case referred to in subregulation (2) , taken during the period referred to in subregulation (1) , the licensee is to pay an annual field management fee in accordance with the following table:
| Region | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | | Fee units | 19.6 | 16.7 | 11.4 | 37.1 | 20.8 | 64.4 | 18.7 | 52.8 |
(4) Where there is more than one water allocation of a licence authorising the taking of water as mentioned in subregulation (1) , only one annual field management fee is payable by the licensee and if the locations, for the taking of water in accordance with those water allocations, are not all situated in the one region referred to in the table, the fee payable is to be the fee that is the highest fee payable for a region in which one or more of those locations is situated.
(5) For the purposes of this regulation, the annual field management fee that is payable, in accordance with a table to a subregulation in this regulation, for a water allocation on a licence authorising the taking of water is the amount, specified in the table, in relation to the region in which is situated the location, for the taking of water in accordance with the water allocation, that is identified on the licence to which the water allocation relates.