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NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (WATER HARVESTING) AMENDMENT BILL 2008

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:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Natural Resources Management (Water Harvesting) Amendment Act 2008.

2—Amendment provisions

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

3—Insertion of section 20A

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.

 


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