Waterlogging and salinity risk management allocation
40 Waterlogging and salinity risk management allocation
A waterlogging and salinity risk management allocation (or
risk management allocation) is an allocation to the irrigated land of an irrigated property of part of the capacity of the Scheme to manage the risk of waterlogging and salinisation of land and increasing levels of salinity in the River Murray resulting from irrigation of land in the
Scheme Area.
The risk management allocation of an irrigated property is attached to the irrigated land comprising the whole or part of the property.
A risk management allocation, or part of a risk management allocation, may be transferred in accordance with section 44 from one category of irrigated land to another.
The risk management allocation attached to a category of irrigated land authorises (for the purposes of this Act but not for the purposes of any other Act) the person in occupation of the land to use a quantity of water taken pursuant to a water licence or a water allocation under the
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Act 2019 equivalent to the allocation to irrigate the land in each water usage year.
Subject to this Part, a risk management allocation—
cannot be dealt with separately from the land to which it is attached; and
is attached proportionally to all parts of that land so that if
part of the land is transferred (or dealt with in any other manner) an equivalent part of the allocation is transferred with it.
Although a risk management allocation is attached proportionally to the land for the purpose of transfer or other dealings with the land, the quantity of water authorised by an allocation for the irrigation of a particular category of land comprising the whole or part of an irrigated property can be used on any part of that land.
The owner of land may, in an irrigation declaration, surrender the whole or part of the risk management allocation attached to the land.
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