Water Amendment Act 1995 (No. 51 of 1995)

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH GOVERNMENT GAZETTE STAATSKOERANT VAN DIE REPUBLIEK VAN at the Post As die CAPE TOWN, NOVEMBER 1997 389 18428 KAAPSTAD, 14 NOVEMBER 1997 I PRESIDENT’ S OFFICE 14 November 1997 is hereby notified that the President has assented to the following Act which is hereby published for general No. 1997: Water Amendment Act. 1997 KANTOOR VAN DIE PRESIDENT No. 1515. 14 November word bekend dat die President het aan die Wet wat ter No. 58 van 1997: 1997. Registered Office as a Newspaper 14 VOL No. 1515. It information: 58of r ~ L:-,;! ~; =·i~i~i.Aris·~ -r:o~,:,-J,u:;1KA)iEC1i: :: . : i--·-" f:1fkl':)Tc:c.::K , I AFRJK:A 19?7 -1 '1 - : o SUID-AFRIKA 'n Nuusblad by Poskantoor Geregistreer No. Hierby gemaak goedkeuring geheg onderstaande algemene inligting gepubliseer word: Waterwysigingswet. 1997 sy hierby No. GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14 NOVEMBER 1997 58, 1997 WATER ACT. 1997 GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE: 1 Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from existing enactments. Words underlined with a solid line insertions in existing enactments. ACT To amend the Water Act, 1956, so as to further regulate the abstraction of water from public streams of which the natural flow is artificially augmented. (Afrikaans signed President. ) (Assented 6 November 1997.) BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament the Republic South Amendment of section 56A of Act of 1956, as inserted section 9 of Act 92 of 1993 1. Section 56A of the Water Act, 1956, is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection ( 1 ) of the following subsection: “(1 ) If [in the opinion of the Minister] the natural flow in any portion of public stream is continually or from time to time augmented purified or treated water derived from effluent resulting from the use for industrial purposes of water supplied or distributed by means of a Government 10 water work or any other water work mentioned in section 56(3)(b). and discharged into that public stream under an exemption, under section l(4). from the provisions of section 21(1)(b); water discharged into that public stream derived from any other source, by means of a Government water work or a water work constructed and operated 15 pursuant to a treaty contemplated in section 138A (1), [he] the Minister may by notice in the prohibit, with effect from a date specified in the notice, the abstraction of water from the said portion of the public stream any place along the course thereof.”. Short title 2. This Act shall be called the Water Amendment Act, 1997. ~ 18428 Act No. AMENDMENT indicate text by the to of of Africa. as follows: 54 by ,: J any by (a) 2 or (b Gazette at 20