Definitions
384 Definitions
Pt 12 (Heading and ss 385–398) amended by Nos 6517 s. 11, 6716 s. 2(Sch. 1), 6759 s. 2, 6867 s. 2(Sch. 1), 7548 s. 8(2)(c), 9019 s. 2(1)(Sch. item 102), 9212 s. 2(2), repealed by No. 9380 s. 3(1)(b), new Pt 12 (Heading and ss 384–386) inserted by No. 80/1989 s. 327.
New s. 384 inserted by No. 80/1989 s. 327.
In this Part—
Authority has the same meaning as in the Water Act 1989;
bed and banks, in relation to a watercourse—
includes the land over which the water in the watercourse normally flows and the land that is normally covered by that water;
does not include land abutting on or adjacent to the bed and banks that is from time to time temporarily covered by floodwaters from the watercourse;
S. 384(1) def. of metropolis substituted by No. 85/2006 s. 173(Sch. 1 item 2.3).
metropolis means the waterway management district of Melbourne Water Corporation under the Water Act 1989;
S. 384(1) def. of port of Melbourne operator inserted by No. 10/2016 s. 172.
port of Melbourne operator has the same meaning as in the Port Management Act 1995;
watercourse means any river, creek, stream, watercourse, lake, lagoon, swamp or marsh.
The reference in the definition of watercourse in subsection (1) to lake, lagoon, swamp or marsh is a reference to—
a natural collection of water into or through or out of which a current that forms the whole or part of the flow of a river, creek, stream or watercourse passes continuously or intermittently; or
a collection of water (other than water collected and contained in a dam or tank on private land or a natural depression on private land) that the Governor in Council, by Order published in the Government Gazette, declares to be a lake, lagoon, swamp or marsh for the purposes of this Part.
New s. 385 inserted by No. 80/1989 s. 327.
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