Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Any requirement of a law of a Basin State that prevents a person from:
(a) using, on land that the person does not own, water available under a water access right; or
(b) obtaining a licence that would authorise the use, on land that the person does not own, of water available under a water access right;
does not apply to the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder in relation to the use of Commonwealth water holdings:
(c) to water declared Ramsar wetlands; or
(d) to water water dependent ecosystems that support:
(i) listed threatened species (within the meaning of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ); or
(ii) listed threatened ecological communities (within the meaning of that Act); or
(iii) listed migratory species (within the meaning of that Act); or
(e) to water sites specified in the regulations.
(2) This section does not authorise the environmental watering of land without the consent of the owner of the land.