Western Australian Consolidated Acts

RIGHTS IN WATER AND IRRIGATION ACT 1914 - SECT 6

6 .         Application of Division

        [(1)         deleted]

        (2)         Subject to section 5 and any proclamation under subsection (3), this Division applies to and in relation to every watercourse or wetland that is for the time being situated within the boundaries of a district but not otherwise.

        (3)         Subject to subsection (4), the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Minister, at any time and from time to time by proclamation declare that this Division — 

            (a)         shall; or

            (b)         shall not,

                apply to and have effect in relation to any watercourse or wetland specified in the proclamation or situated in a portion of the State so specified and any such proclamation shall have effect according to its tenor.

        (4)         A proclamation under subsection (3) shall not be made unless —

            (a)         the Minister has given notice of the proposed proclamation —

                  (i)         to each interested local government, within the meaning of subsection (5); and

                  (ii)         to each water resources management committee established under Division 3C for the locality or localities to which the proclamation is intended to apply;

            (b)         the local governments and water resources management committees have been given the opportunity to make submissions on the proposal to the Minister;

            (c)         the Minister has called for public comment on the proposal in accordance with subsection (6); and

            (d)         the Minister has considered any submissions made under this section.

        (5)         For the purposes of subsection (4), where a watercourse or wetland runs through, is contiguous to, or is situated wholly or partly in, a local government district, the local government of that district is, in relation to a proposed proclamation under that subsection affecting that watercourse or wetland an interested local government.

        (6)         The Minister is taken to comply with subsection (4)(c) by —

            (a)         publishing in 2 issues of a daily newspaper circulating in the locality concerned a notice stating the proposal to make the proclamation; and

            (b)         including in the notice a statement —

                  (i)         specifying the places at which a copy of the proposed proclamation may be inspected or obtained;

                  (ii)         indicating that written submissions on the proposed proclamation may be made by any person within a specified period; and

                  (iii)         showing the address to which submissions may be delivered or posted.

        (7)         The period specified under subsection (6)(b)(ii) is to be not less than 30 days after both of the notices referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection have been published.

        [Section 6 inserted by No. 119 of 1984 s. 3; amended by No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 49 of 2000 s. 14(2) and (3), 15 and 20; No. 38 of 2007 s. 55 and 101(1).]