Licence to take groundwater in Adelaide River area
14AB Licence to take groundwater in Adelaide River area
For section 71M(1)(b) of the Act, the following circumstances are prescribed:
the application for the licence to take water relates to land within the Adelaide River area;
during the 12 month period ending on 30 June 2024, water was routinely taken from a bore on the land for a commercial undertaking that was reliant on groundwater on the land;
from 1 July 2024 until the making of the application, water continued to be routinely taken from a bore on the land for the commercial undertaking;
the commercial undertaking is not a mining activity or petroleum activity;
the application is made with 2 years of the commencement of this regulation.
In this regulation:
Adelaide River area means the part of the Territory declared by the Minister under section 22 of the Act to be a water control district and allocated the name "Darwin Rural Adelaide
River Water Control District" on 30 April 2024 and published in
Gazette No. S61 of 28 June 2024 but not including the former Darwin Rural Water Control District.
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