Water Management (General) Regulation 2025

The following controlled activities after a storm—

repair work on a building or structure, including an access track, watercourse crossing, water supply works or essential services infrastructure, damaged by the storm if the work does not—

involve the replacement of a structural component of a building or structure that cannot otherwise be repaired under this schedule, and

include enhancements to, or the expansion of, the building or structure beyond its condition immediately before the storm damage occurred,

the removal of detritus, including woody debris, from relevant waterfront land—

for detritus that was deposited on the waterfront land as a result of the storm, and

if the removal occurs within 12 months after the deposit.

In this section—

the bed of a river and the land lying between the bed of the river and the highest bank of the river,

the bed of a lake and the land lying between the bed of the lake and the shore of the lake,

the bed of an estuary and the land lying between the bed of the estuary and the mean high water mark of the estuary.