Water Management (General) Regulation 2025

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

This section applies to an authority under which a work is used without metering equipment to take water.

The holder of an authority to which this section applies must, in relation to a water supply work used to take water—

record water taken using the work, and

separately record when water is taken using the work under—

a basic landholder right, or

an exemption from holding an access licence, and

for an authority subject to a condition that the holder must confirm specified matters before water is taken—record the means by which the holder confirmed the specified matters if the take is from anything other than a regulated river.

The records must be—

made no later than 24 hours after the day on which water is taken, and

made in an approved form and manner, and

kept for a period of 5 years, and

given to the Minister in an approved form and manner no later than 28 days after the end of the water year in which the water was taken or matters confirmed.

If the holder has not taken any water using the work during a water year, the holder must—

record this fact in the approved form and way, and

give the record to the Minister within 28 days after the end of the water year.

This section does not apply to a water supply work—

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, or

used solely to take water under—

a basic landholder right, or

an exemption from an access licence.