Water Plan (Mary Basin) 2024
sec.57Applications for water licences made before commencement
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sec.57 Applications for water licences made before commencement
This section applies to an application for a water licence to take or interfere with water to which the repealed plan applied if the application was made, but not decided, before the commencement. If the chief executive would not, under section 33, be able to accept the application had it been made after the commencement, the application is of no effect and is taken not to have been made. If subsection (2) does not apply, the application is to be decided under this plan. (sec.57-ssec.1) This section applies to an application for a water licence to take or interfere with water to which the repealed plan applied if the application was made, but not decided, before the commencement. (sec.57-ssec.2) If the chief executive would not, under section 33, be able to accept the application had it been made after the commencement, the application is of no effect and is taken not to have been made. (sec.57-ssec.3) If subsection (2) does not apply, the application is to be decided under this plan.