Water Management Act 2000

This section applies to a water management work approval granted in relation to a joint scheme, that is, a scheme under which landholders of different parcels of land hold a single water management work approval for a water management work located on, passing through or otherwise benefiting or affecting those parcels.

A water management work approval for a water management work the subject of a joint scheme is subject to such conditions as the regulations require and to such other conditions as the landholders concerned agree.

A regulation referred to in subsection (2) may impose conditions, in relation to the rights and duties of the landholders concerned in the joint scheme, with respect to the following matters—

the granting of access to the work,

the operation of the work,

the apportionment of water supplied by means of the work,

the apportionment of the cost of constructing and maintaining the work,

the apportionment of such other costs with respect to work as are prescribed by the regulations,

the exclusion of land from the joint scheme.