Water Management Act 1999

The Minister may not suspend or cancel a special licence except with the approval of a resolution passed by both Houses of Parliament.

For the purpose of subsection (1), a House of Parliament is taken to have approved the resolution if a copy of it has been laid on the table of that House and – the resolution is approved by that House; or at the expiration of 10 sitting days of that House after the copy was laid on the table of that House, no motion to disallow the resolution has been passed.

For the purposes of this section, where a motion to disallow a provision of a resolution is passed by a House of Parliament – the motion has the effect of annulling only that provision; and the remainder of the resolution is taken to be approved by that House.