Commencement Proclamation (2014-838) (NSW)

New South Wales

Commencement Proclamation

under the

Water Management Amendment Act 2014 No 48

DAVID HURLEY, Governor

I, General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC, Governor of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 (1) of the Water Management Amendment Act 2014, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 1 January 2015 as the day on which the uncommenced provisions of that Act commence, except for the following provisions:

(a)	Schedule 1.5,
(b)	Schedule 1.7,
(c)	Schedule 1.8 [4],
(d)	Schedule 1.9,
(e)	Schedule 1.10 [5]–[7], [15]–[19], [22], [23] and [26],
(f)	Schedule 1.14 [2],
(g)	Schedule 3.1.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 17th day of December 2014.

By His Excellency’s Command,

KEVIN HUMPHRIES, MP
Minister for Natural Resources, Lands and Water

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Commencement Proclamation [NSW]

Explanatory note

(d)	controlled allocation of access licences,
(e)	metering requirements,
(f)	offences involving the taking of water,
(g)	authorisation to take water from uncontrolled flows,
(h)	streamlining of licensing and trading processes,

(i)         management plans,

(j)

combined approvals,

(k)

floodplain harvesting access licences.

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence amendments to the Water Management Act 2000 relating to the following matters:

(a)	overland flow water and related terminology,
(b)	supplementary water access licences,
(c)	harvestable rights,