Preparing and implementing process under the resource operations plan generally
33 Preparing and implementing process under the resource operations plan generally
Unallocated water is dealt with under a process stated in the resource operations plan.
In preparing and implementing the process, the chief executive is to consider the following—
the purpose for which the water is required;
the efficiency of existing and proposed water use practices;
the extent to which water is being taken under existing authorisations in the plan area;
the availability of an alternative water supply for the purpose for which the water is required;
the impact the proposed taking of, or interfering with, the water may have on existing water users, the operations of resource operations licence and distribution operations licence holders in the plan area;
whether the proposed taking or interfering is likely to have a direct adverse effect on groundwater flows;
the matters mentioned in section 22(1).
Subsection (2) does not limit the matters the chief executive may consider.
The resource operations plan will state that use, for irrigation, of water taken under a water licence granted under section 212 of the Act requires a land and water management plan approved under section 77 of the Act.
In this section—
existing, in relation to an authorisation, water use practice or water user, means existing at the time the process stated in the resource operations plan is being prepared.
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