Water Management Act 2000

Subject to subsection (2), an owner or occupier of a landholding is entitled, without the need for an access licence, water supply work approval or water use approval—

to take water from any river, estuary or lake to which the land has frontage or from any aquifer underlying the land, and

to construct and use a water supply work for that purpose, and

to use the water so taken for domestic consumption and stock watering, but not for any other purpose.

Subsection (1) does not allow a landholder—

to take or use water in contravention of any mandatory guidelines established under section 336B, or

to construct a dam or water bore without a water supply work approval, or

in the case of the owner or occupier of a landholding arising from a subdivision effected on or after 1 July 2004, to take or use water in contravention of any prohibition or restriction imposed by or under the regulations (including any prohibition or restriction that the Minister is authorised by the regulations to impose), or

to carry out a controlled activity without a controlled activity approval.

In this section—