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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Development (Water Harvesting) Amendment
Bill 2008
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Development Act 1993.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Development
Act 1993
3 Insertion of section
51A
51A Water harvesting
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Development (Water Harvesting) Amendment
Act 2008.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Development
Act 1993
After section 51 insert:
51A—Water harvesting
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a relevant authority must not approve
a designated development unless the development provides for the following
works:
(a) arrangements to facilitate 2 sets of waterworks for the supply of
water to dwellings or other prescribed classes of buildings within the
development, 1 set of waterworks being for the supply of water of drinking
quality and the other set of waterworks being for the supply of recycled
wastewater;
(b) stormwater management works designed to capture stormwater in ponds to
allow sediment in stormwater to settle in the ponds and designed to prevent the
erosion of the banks of watercourses;
(c) aquifer storage works designed to allow for the collection (whether
through pumping or otherwise), storage and reuse of stormwater and treated
wastewater (unless the use of an aquifer in this way is not reasonably
practicable in the circumstances of the particular case).
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the Minister may grant an exemption
from the requirements set out in subsection (1).
(3) If the Minister proposes to grant an exemption under
subsection (2), the Minister must refer the matter to the Environment,
Resources and Development Committee of the Parliament.
(4) The Environment, Resources and Development Committee may request
further particulars relating to the development from the Minister (and the
Minister must comply with this request as expeditiously as possible).
(5) The Environment, Resources and Development Committee must, after
receipt of a referral under subsection (3)—
(a) resolve that it does not object to the grant of an exemption;
or
(b) resolve to object to the grant of an exemption.
(6) If, at the expiration of 12 sitting days from the day on which the
matter was referred to the Environment, Resources and Development Committee, the
Committee has not made a resolution under subsection (5), it will be
conclusively presumed that the Committee does not object to the grant of an
exemption (and the Minister may proceed to grant the exemption).
(7) If the Environment, Resources and Development Committee resolves to
object to the grant of an exemption, the Minister may not grant the
exemption.
(8) In this section—
designated development means a development that
involves—
(a) the division of land under this Act into more than 20 allotments
for the purposes of residential development involving the construction of new
houses (whether as an element of the development or at a second or subsequent
stage); or
(b) the construction of a building on vacant land for commercial or
industrial purposes where the area of the site exceeds 1 000 square
metres.