Water Management (General) Regulation 2025

For the Act, section 92(7), the Minister must advertise applications for the following—

water supply work approvals for the following—

works to take water from a river,

bores for the taking of water, other than bores used only to take water in accordance with a person’s basic landholder rights,

works that have the effect of impounding water in a water source,

works constructed or used to capture rainwater run-off,

water use approvals for irrigation, other than irrigation on land to which a replacement access licence applies,

flood work approvals for non-complying flood works,

flood work approvals for flood works located in or on a floodplain to which no management plan or converted floodplain management plan applies.

An application for an approval must be advertised by a notice published on one or more of the following—

the Department’s website,

the website of Water NSW,

the Regulator’s website.

The notice must contain the following information—

the name of the applicant,

the type of approval to which the application relates,

particulars indicating the location to which the application relates,

for a water supply work approval—the capacity of the work and the water source and stream from which the work will take water,

for a water use approval—the purpose for which water will be used under the approval,

the form in which an objection against the application must be made,

the address to which, and the time by which, an objection must be made,

the name and contact details of a member of staff of the Department.

In this section—

located, or proposed to be constructed, in an area to which a converted floodplain management plan applies, and

that, in the Minister’s opinion, does not comply with the converted floodplain management plan.