Water Regulation 2016

This section applies if the chief executive—

gives the applicant notice of the decision, other than an information notice; or

receives a transfer notice within the period mentioned in section 37(2).

The chief executive may require the proposed transferee to give a document evidencing ownership of land to which the new licence will attach.

The chief executive must cancel, amend or subdivide the water licence the subject of the application, or issue a new licence, necessary to give effect to the relocation within 30 business days after—

if the chief executive has, under subsection (2), required the proposed transferee to give a document—the day the chief executive receives the document; or

if the chief executive receives a transfer notice—the day the chief executive receives the notice; or

otherwise—the day the chief executive gives notice of the decision under section 36(3) or (5).