Water Act 1992 (NT)

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

WATER ACT 1992

As in force at 3 March 2023

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

As in force at 3 March 2023

WATER ACT 1992

An Act to provide for the investigation, allocation, use, control, protection, management and administration of water resources, and for related purposes

• (1)

  The Acts of the State of South Australia specified in Part A of the Schedule, in their application to the Territory as laws of the Territory, are repealed.

• (2)

  The Act and Ordinances specified in Part B of the Schedule are repealed.

• (1)

  In this Act:

  Aboriginal economic development means economic development by or for the benefit of eligible Aboriginal people.

  Aboriginal water reserve means a reserve of water allocated in a water allocation plan for Aboriginal economic development in respect of eligible land designated under section 22C.

  Advisory Committee means a Water Advisory Committee established under section 23.

  aquifer means a geological structure or formation, or an artificial land-fill, permeated or capable of being permeated permanently or intermittently with water.

  authorised officer means a person appointed under section 21.

  bed and banks, in relation to a waterway, means the land over which normally flows, or which is normally covered by, the water of the waterway, whether permanently or intermittently, but does not include land from time to time temporarily covered by the flood waters of the waterway and abutting on or adjacent to its bed and banks, the bed being the relatively flat portion and the banks being the relatively steep portions of the land comprising the bed and banks.

  beneficial uses means the uses of water specified in subsection (3).

  bore means a natural or constructed hole in the ground that is used, or could reasonably be used, for any of the following purposes:

  • (a)

    taking groundwater;

  • (b)

    investigating the behaviour, occurrence and availability of groundwater;

  • (c)

    monitoring the condition of groundwater;

  • (d)

    injecting water to recharge an aquifer;

  • (e)

    disposing waste directly or indirectly into groundwater.

  bore work means any of the following:

  • (a)

    drilling, decommissioning, constructing, altering, deepening, plugging, backfilling or sealing off a bore;

  • (b)

    removing, replacing, altering, slotting or repairing the casing, lining or screen of a bore.

  Chairperson, in relation to the Review Panel, includes a person appointed under section 26 to act in the office of the Chairperson, while the person is acting.

  consent means a consent granted and in force under this Act.

  Controller means the Controller of Water Resources appointed under section 18.

  developer, for Part 6B, see section 71F(1).

  development, for Part 6B, see section 71F(1)(a).

  drilling licence means a drilling licence granted under section…