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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Natural Resources Management (Water Harvesting) Amendment
Bill 2008
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Natural Resources Management
Act 2004.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Natural Resources Management
Act 2004
3 Insertion of
section 20A
20A Water harvesting
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Natural Resources Management (Water
Harvesting) Amendment Act 2008.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Natural Resources Management
Act 2004
After section 20 insert:
20A—Water harvesting
(1) An annual report of the NRM Council under section 20 must include
a statement setting out the amounts spent by designated authorities over the
relevant financial year (including by the provision of financial assistance or
grants) on projects designed—
(a) to manage, capture, store or reuse stormwater; or
(b) to capture, store or reuse wastewater.
(2) A statement under subsection (1) must specify any relevant amount
for each designated authority.
(3) A designated authority must, by 31 October in each year, provide
to the NRM Council such information as the Council may reasonably require in
order to comply with the requirements of subsection (1) (unless the
designated authority has not undertaken any projects within the financial year
that are relevant to the operation of that subsection).
(4) In this section—
designated authority means—
(a) a regional NRM board; or
(b) a council; or
(c) the Stormwater Management Authority; or
(d) the South Australian Water Corporation; or
(e) the Department; or
(f) any other entity brought within the ambit of this definition by the
regulations;
wastewater means industrial wastewater or domestic
wastewater.