Water Management (General) Regulation 2025

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

complies with Schedule 5, and

does not have telemetry capacity to transmit 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 give the Minister, in an approved way—

a report containing the meter readings of the metering equipment at the beginning and end of the named month, and

give the report not more than 14 days after the end of each named month.

The holder does not breach the condition 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 the following—

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 water is overland flow water taken from a declared floodplain—an unregulated river access licence,

an authority in relation to a water supply work that is used solely to take water under—

a basic landholder right, or

an exemption from an access licence.