Water Act 2000

This section applies if—

a final report for a resource tenure is approved under section 385; and

the report identifies a long-term affected area and 1 or more water bores in the long-term affected area.

Part 5 applies for each water bore mentioned in subsection (1)(b) as if—

the long-term affected area was an immediately affected area; and

the bore was an immediately affected area bore; and

the final report was an underground water impact report.

Note—If a resource tenure ends, a reference in this chapter to a resource tenure holder includes a reference to the holder of the resource tenure immediately before it ended. See section 364.