Water Management (General) Regulation 2025

This section applies to an authority under which a work used to take water is used in connection with metering equipment that—

complies with Schedule 5, and

has telemetry capacity that transmits data relating to water measured by the meter in accordance with the approved telemetry specifications.

For the Act, sections 115 and 115A(b), the provisions of this section are mandatory conditions imposed on an authority to which this section applies.

The holder of an authority to which this section applies must—

record in the approved form and manner when water is taken using the work under—

a basic landholder right, or

an exemption from holding an access licence, and

if the authority is subject to a condition that the holder must confirm specified matters before water is taken in accordance with the authority—record, in the approved form and manner, the means by which the holder confirmed the matters, and

record the information referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) no later than 24 hours after any day during which the water is taken.

Subsection (3)(b) does not apply in relation to water taken from a regulated river.

The holder of an authority must give the Minister, in an approved way—

if water was taken during the named month—the records made under this section for the water taken, or

if no water was taken during the named month—a statement indicating that no water was taken during the named month.

The records must be given to the Minister not more than 14 days after the end of each named month.

The holder does not breach this section for a named month if—

the holder has given the Minister a no take notice for the named month, and

the holder did not take water using the work during the named month.

This section does not apply to an authority in relation to a water supply work that is used to take water under—

a floodplain harvesting (regulated river) access licence, or

a floodplain harvesting (unregulated river) access licence, or

if the work is used solely for the taking of overland flow water from a declared floodplain—an unregulated river access licence.