Water Act 2000

For the purpose of planning for the sustainable management, use and allocation of water, a regulation may do the following—

reserve unallocated water for a part of the State or for particular water to which no water plan applies;

prescribe the processes for releasing unallocated water, including through the grant or sale of a water entitlement;

prescribe processes and criteria for establishing the elements of proposed water allocations;

prescribe water allocation dealing rules applying to whole of the State;

prescribe the processes for granting a seasonal water assignment for a water allocation;

prescribe the types of works that are to be regulated as acceptable development or assessable development;

prescribe the requirements for the holders of resource operations licences and distribution operations licences in collecting and providing information to the chief executive.