Water Management Act 2000

The Governor may, by proclamation published in the Gazette, declare an embargo on the making of applications for approvals with respect to any water management area.

Such a proclamation may apply to the whole of a water management area or to any specified part of a water management area, and to approvals generally or to any specified type or kind of approvals.

A proclamation under this section may relate to all applications, to applications of a specified kind or to all applications other than applications of a specified kind.

As soon as practicable after a proclamation under this section is published in the Gazette, notice of the proclamation must be published in the authorised manner.

A proclamation under this section takes effect at the beginning of the date on which it is published in the Gazette and continues in force until it is revoked by a further proclamation so published.