Water Act 1912 No 44
Historical version for 1 January 2001 to 19 December 2002 (accessed 23 May 2013 at 05:46)
Current version
27 Regulations
(1) The Governor may make regulations prescribing or relating
to:(a) forms of, and of application for:(i) licences, group licences, authorities and permits,
and
(ii) renewal of licences, group licences, authorities and
permits,
and forms of notices required or authorised under this
Part,
(b) fees payable in respect of licences, renewals of licences,
authorities, renewals of authorities, permits and renewals of permits, group
licences and renewals of group licences,
(c) the prevention of the pollution of water and the obstruction or
injury to or interference with works,
(c1) a scheme for transfers between holders of licences, authorities
and group licences of rights to take and use water from a water source that is
not the subject of a volumetric water allocations scheme under Division
4B,
(c2) a scheme for transfers between holders of licences, authorities
and group licences of rights to store or conserve water in dams within the
meaning of section 22BB,
(d) the furnishing by holders of licences, holders of group licences,
holders of permits, holders of authorities or group licence occupiers, of
returns specifying the area of their irrigated land, crops watered, number of
days on which irrigation is carried on, times of irrigation, and such other
particulars as the Governor may consider fit,
(e) the terms and conditions governing joint water supply schemes,
including charges for water
(e1) the prohibition or regulation of the mooring of any ship, boat,
barge, punt, craft, houseboat or any other vessel whatsoever within prescribed
areas in any river or lake which is a source of public water supply or of
water supply for any town or village within the State of New South Wales or
the State of Victoria,
(e2) the empowering of the Ministerial Corporation or any person
authorised by the Ministerial Corporation to remove or cause to be removed any
ship, boat, barge, punt, craft, houseboat or other vessel moored in
contravention of the regulations,
(e3) matters giving effect to the provisions of this Part relating to
the purchase and sale of water allocations including, in the case of purchases
by tender, matters relating to the submission, and the acceptance or
rejection, of a tender, and
(f) the imposition of a penalty for any breach of the
regulations:(i) where the breach is committed by a corporation—not exceeding
200 penalty units and, in the case of a continuing breach, the imposition of a
further penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units for each day the breach
continues, or
(ii) where the breach is committed by any other person—not
exceeding 100 penalty units and, in the case of a continuing breach, the
imposition of a further penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units for each day
the breach continues,
(g) (Repealed)
and generally for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this
Part and providing for the procedure thereunder.
(1A) A provision of a regulation may:(a) apply generally or be limited in its application by reference to
specified exceptions or factors,
(b) apply differently according to different factors of a specified
kind, or
(c) authorise any matter or thing to be from time to time determined,
applied or regulated by a specified person or body,
or may do any combination of those things.