Sugar cane plantings
18 Sugar cane plantings
A person is exempt in relation to taking water from an artificial channel if—
the water is taken for the purpose of watering to establish agricultural plantings of sugar cane, and
the volume of water taken does not, in a continuous 12-month period, exceed 0.05ML/ha of land on which sugar cane is being established, and
the channel was constructed for the primary purpose of draining water from land on which sugar cane is grown, and
the channel does not have banks that are above ground level, and
the channel is located in an area to which one of the following applies—
the Water Sharing Plan for the Clarence River Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2016,
the Water Sharing Plan for the Brunswick Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2016,
the Water Sharing Plan for the Tweed River Area Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2023,
the Water Sharing Plan for the Richmond River Area Unregulated, Regulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2023, and
a work used to take the water is not fixed to the land.
For subsection (1)(a), a sugar cane plant is taken to be established once the sugar cane plant reaches a height of 50cm.
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