South Australian Consolidated Acts

GROUND WATER (QUALCO-SUNLANDS) CONTROL ACT 2000 - SECT 39

39—Rewards for reducing the impact of irrigation

        (1)         The Governor may, by regulation made on the recommendation of the Trust, establish a scheme under which the owner or occupier of an irrigated property is rewarded for reducing the impact of irrigation on the property on—

            (a)         waterlogging or salinisation of the land comprising the property or any other land; or

            (b)         salinity levels in the River Murray; or

            (c)         both of those problems.

        (2)         Without limiting the power to make regulations establishing a scheme under subsection (1), regulations made for that purpose may—

            (a)         exempt a person entitled to rewards under the scheme from any provision of this Act or may modify the operation of any provision of this Act in relation to such a person;

            (b)         provide for appeals to the ERD Court in relation to the operation of the scheme.