Water Act 2000

This section applies in relation to a cumulative management area for which an approved underground water impact report is in effect.

The office must, before each annual review day for the cumulative management area, do each of the following in relation to the approved underground water impact report—

consider whether an amendment of the report to update the baseline assessment strategy is necessary, having regard to—

any section 390A matter in relation to the area that the office has become aware of since the last strategy update for the area; and

another change relating to a CMA tenure that has happened since the last strategy update for the area;Examples of changes relating to a CMA tenure for subparagraph (ii)—

if the office considers an amendment of the report to update the baseline assessment strategy is necessary—

propose an amendment of the report to update the baseline assessment strategy to address the matter mentioned in paragraph (a); and

consult on the proposed amendment in accordance with subsection (4).

The office must give the proposed amendment to the chief executive for approval under subsection (5) when the office gives the chief executive an annual review summary for the cumulative management area.

In consulting on the proposed amendment, division 4, subdivision 2 applies to the proposed amendment as if—

a reference in that subdivision to an underground water impact report or final report were a reference to the proposed amendment; and

section 382(1) only required the office to give a notice about the proposed amendment to each owner of a water bore within the area to which the report relates if the owner would be affected by the proposed amendment; and

section 382(2) required the office to give a copy of the notice to a holder of a CMA tenure within the area, other than the holder of a closing CMA tenure, only if the holder would be affected by the proposed amendment; and

a reference in section 382(3)(e) to the day the notice is published were a reference to the day the notice mentioned in paragraph (b) is given.

In deciding whether to approve the proposed amendment, division 5 applies to the chief executive’s decision as if a reference in that division to an underground water impact report or final report were a reference to the proposed amendment.

The approved underground water impact report, as amended, takes effect on the day the amendment takes effect under section 385(6), as applied under subsection (5).

In this section—annual review day, for a cumulative management area, means the day on which the office is required to give the chief executive, as mentioned in section 376(1)(e)(ii), an annual review summary for the area.annual review summary, for a cumulative management area, means a summary of the outcome of an annual review, as mentioned in section 376(1)(e)(i), in relation to the area.last strategy update, for a cumulative management area, means the most recent approval or amendment of the baseline assessment strategy for the area.section 390A matter, in relation to a cumulative management area, means a material change or other matter of which the holder of a CMA tenure is required under section 390A to give the office notice.