Australian Capital Territory

National Land Amendment (Water Management) Ordinance 2014

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Ordinance.

Dated 27 November 2014

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Simon Birmingham

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment
for the Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Land Ordinance 1989

1  Name

  This is the National Land Amendment (Water Management) Ordinance 2014.

2  Commencement

  This Ordinance commences on 18 December 2014.

3  Authority

  This Ordinance is made under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Land Ordinance 1989

1  Subsection 3(1)

Insert:

take, in relation to water, has the same meaning as in the Water Resources Act 2007 (ACT), as in force on 18 December 2014.

water has the same meaning as in the Water Resources Act 2007 (ACT), as in force on 18 December 2014.

2  After subsection 4(2)

Insert:

 (2A) Despite subsections (1) and (2), the management of National Land does not include the management, or regulation, of the taking of water on National Land.

Note: In relation to the National Capital Authority, see also subsection 6(2) of the Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Act 1988.