Section 5: Application for licence
consolidated text (as at 2009). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
5. Application for licence
(1) Any person who wishes to obtain a ground water licence shall make
an application in the prescribed form to the Authority and cause notice of the
application to be published in the Gazette and in 2 daily newspapers approved by the Authority.
(2) The applicant shall furnish to the Authority such information, data,
documents and plans as it may require.
(3) Every application for the renewal of a ground water licence shall be
made in the prescribed form to the Authority not later than 6 months before
the expiry of the existing licence and shall be published in the Gazette and in
2 daily newspapers approved by the Authority.
(4) The Authority may exempt any applicant for a ground water licence
who, before 1 September 1970, was drawing ground water from a well exclusively for domestic purposes, from publishing his application as required
by subsections (1) and (3).