Water Management Amendment Act 2018 (NSW)

Water Management Amendment Act 2018 No 31

An Act to amend the Water Management Act 2000 with respect to management plans, approvals and access licences, Murray-Darling Basin water resources, metering equipment, enforcement and liability, the provision of information and managing environmental water; and for other purposes.

1 Name of Act This Act is the Water Management Amendment Act 2018.

2 Commencement (1) This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation, except as provided by subsection (2). (2) Schedules 1 [1]–[7], [9]–[25], [28], [30], [31], [34]–[36], [38]–[42], [45]–[51], [53], [54], [56]–[59], [61]–[70], [73]–[76], [78]–[80], [85], [88]–[90], [92] (except to the extent that it inserts the definition of individual daily extraction component), [93]–[96], 2.1–2.3 and 2.5 commence on the date of assent to this Act.

Schedule 1 Amendment of Water Management Act 2000 No 92

[1]–[25] (Repealed)

[26] Section 71 Water Access Licence Register Omit section 71 (3) and (4).

[27]–[31] (Repealed)

[32] Section 84 Register of available water determinations Omit "the form in which such a register is to be kept and" from section 84 (2).

[33]–[36] (Repealed)

[37] Section 87D Insert after section 87C:

87D Information about rights to take water from water sources (1) The Minister may authorise the publication of the following information about a water source on a publicly accessible website approved by the Minister: (a) whether or not water can be taken by access licence holders from a particular part of the water source on a particular day or at a particular time on a particular day in accordance with an applicable management plan, a particular condition of an access licence or any other specified requirement of or under this Act, (b) the amount of water that can be taken from a particular part of the water source on a particular day or at a particular time on a particular day, in accordance with an applicable management plan, a particular condition of an access licence or any other specified requirement of or under this Act, (c) information relating to water flows and levels of a particular part of a water source, including gauge readings and other measurements, on a particular day or at a particular time on a particular day. (2) For the purposes of this Act, a person is taken to be permitted to take water in accordance with a management plan or a condition of an access licence if the person: (a) is entitled to take water under that plan or licence, and (b) takes water in accordance with information published under this section. (3) This section does not: (a) permit a person to take water if to do so would contravene a condition of an access licence that is not the subject of information published under this section, or (b) prevent a person from taking water if the person is otherwise permitted to do so under an access licence or by or under this Act.