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WATER ACT 2007 - SECT 23

Long - term average sustainable diversion limits

  (1)   A long - term average sustainable diversion limit must reflect an environmentally sustainable level of take.

  (2)   A long - term average sustainable diversion limit may be specified:

  (a)   as a particular quantity of water per year; or

  (b)   as a formula or other method that may be used to calculate a quantity of water per year; or

  (c)   in any other way that the Authority determines to be appropriate.

Note:   Sections   23A and 23B set out how a long - term average sustainable diversion limit may be adjusted.

  (3)   A reference in this section to a long - term average sustainable diversion limit is a reference to a long - term average sustainable diversion limit for:

  (a)   the Basin water resources; or

  (b)   the water resources of a particular water resource plan area; or

  (c)   a particular part of the water resources referred to in paragraph   (b).



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