Western Australian Consolidated Acts

RIGHTS IN WATER AND IRRIGATION ACT 1914 - SECT 3

3 .         Meaning of “watercourse”

        (1)         In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears — 

        watercourse means — 

            (a)         any river, creek, stream or brook in which water flows;

            (b)         any collection of water (including a reservoir) into, through or out of which any thing coming within paragraph (a) flows;

            (c)         any place where water flows that is prescribed by local by-laws to be a watercourse,

        and includes the bed and banks of any thing referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

        (2)         For the purposes of the definition in subsection (1) — 

            (a)         a flow or collection of water comes within that definition even though it is only intermittent or occasional;

            (b)         a river, creek, stream or brook includes a conduit that wholly or partially diverts it from its natural course and forms part of the river, creek, stream or brook; and

            (c)         it is immaterial that a river, creek, stream or brook or a natural collection of water may have been artificially improved or altered.

        [Section 3 inserted by No. 49 of 2000 s. 6.]

[Part II deleted by No. 73 of 1995 s. 114.]

        [Heading inserted by No. 119 of 1984 s. 3; amended by No. 49 of 2000 s. 17.]

        [Heading inserted by No. 49 of 2000 s. 7.]