Water Management (Sassafras Wesley Vale Groundwater Area) Order 2012

Water Management (Sassafras Wesley Vale Groundwater Area) Order 2012

I make the following order under section 124A of the Water Management Act 1999 .

7 August 2012

BRYAN GREEN

Minister for Primary Industries and Water

1.   Short title

This order may be cited as the Water Management (Sassafras Wesley Vale Groundwater Area) Order 2012 .

2.   Commencement

This order takes effect on the day on which its making is notified in the Gazette.

3.   Sassafras Wesley Vale Groundwater Area

The area of land defined in Schedule 1 to this order is –

(a) appointed to be, and is defined as, a groundwater area; and

(b) named the Sassafras Wesley Vale Groundwater Area.

4.   Requirement for licence

(1)  Groundwater may not be taken from the Sassafras Wesley Vale Groundwater Area for commercial purposes without the authority of a licence.

(2)  For subclause (1) , groundwater is taken for commercial purposes if it is taken for a purpose that –

(a) is not a specified purpose within the meaning of section 48(1) of the Water Management Act 1999 ; and

(b) is a specified purpose within the meaning of section 48(1) of the Water Management Act 1999 and the amount of groundwater taken is in excess of the amount specified for that purpose in regulation 4(1) of the Water Management Regulations 2009 .

SCHEDULE 1 - Sassafras Wesley Vale Groundwater Area

Clause 3

All that area of land comprising about 19 744 hectares, shown bounded by a heavy black line and shaded on Plan 9501 in the Central Plan Register, a reduced copy of which is set out, by way of illustration only, in Schedule 2 to this order.

SCHEDULE 2 - Plan

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 15 August 2012

This order is administered in the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment.