Water Management (General) Regulation 2025

A replacement floodplain harvesting access licence takes effect, and the eligible floodplain landholder is taken to hold the licence, only after the Minister gives written notice to the eligible floodplain landholder of—

the category of the replacement floodplain harvesting access licence, and

the final share component of the licence determined in accordance with Subdivision 2.

The categories of replacement floodplain harvesting access licence are—

for an eligible floodplain landholder if, on or before 3 July 2008, a regulated river access licence was in force in relation to the land on which the eligible floodplain landholder’s eligible water supply work is located—a floodplain harvesting (regulated river) access licence, or

otherwise—a floodplain harvesting (unregulated river) access licence.

A water supply work is taken to have been nominated under the Act, section 71W in relation to an eligible floodplain landholder’s replacement floodplain harvesting access licence if the work—

is capable of floodplain harvesting, and

is located on the eligible floodplain landholder’s land, and

is specified in a water supply work approval.