Rights in Water and Irrigation Act Amendment Act 1971 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

RIGHTS IN WATER

AND IRRIGATION.

No. 46 of 1971.

AN ACT to amend the Rights in Water and

Irrigation Act, 1914-1964.

[Assented to 10th December, 1971.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Rights in MOIrt tine

Water and Irrigation Act Amendment Act, 1971. citation

(2) In this Act the Rights in Water and Irrigation 1Y then

Act, 1914-1964 is referred to as the principal Act. FAtrinted

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may Approved

be cited as the Rights in Water and Irrigation Act, ber, 1960

and further

1914-1971.

amended by

Acts a

of 1962 and

31 at 1961

No. 46.] Rights in Water and Irrigation. [1971.

Amendment

to s. 13.	2. Section 13 of the principal Act is amended by
(Minister

entitled to	substituting for the words "or marsh"
Institute

proceed-	(a)	in line nine of subsection (1); and
ings.)
(b)	in line nine of subsection (2),

the passage ", marsh or subterranean water source".

Amendment

to s. 18.	3. Section 18 of the principal Act is amended
(Certain

wells to be	(a)	by deleting the words "lying north of the
subject of
license.)	twenty-sixth parallel of south latitude", in lines two and three of subsection (1); and
(b)	by adding after subsection (1) a subsection as follows

(1a) Section thirty-six of the Inter- pretation Act, 1918, applies to any proclamation made under subsection (1) of this section as though the proclamation were a regulation. .

Repeal and

re-enact-	4. Section 19 of the principal Act is repealed and
ment of

s. 19.	re-enacted as follows-
Information

on non-	19. (1) The owner or occupier of land shall, within one month after completing the con- struction of or the deepening of any non- artesian well on the land, furnish, in the prescribed form, to the Minister or to such other person as the Minister may direct such informa- tion in respect of the well as is prescribed.
artesian
wells.

Penalty: Two hundred dollars.

(2) The Minister may, by notice published in the Government Gazette, exempt the owners or occupiers of land in any part of the State from the requirement of complying with the pro- visions of subsection (1) of this section and may, by subsequent notice so published, vary or cancel any such notice. .

1971.] Rights in Water and Irrigation. [No. 46.

5. Subsection (5) of section 20 of the principal p.mirent

Act is amended—	(Applica- tions for
and

(a)	by deleting the words "person or", in line of four; and
(b)	by adding after the word "appoint", in line five, the passage "including at least one person nominated by the person aggrieved,".

6. Subsection (1) of section 65 of the principal	Amendment
to s. 65.

Act is amended by adding after the word "depart-	(Delegation
ment", in line two, the words "or any other depart-	of powers.)
ment of the State".