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Report Card – Northern Territory Water Regulatory Reform

Details:

Title

Report Card – Northern Territory Water Regulatory Reform

Creator

Northern Territory. Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security. Water Resources Division

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; Technical Report ; 8/2021

Date

2021

Description

The Water Regulatory Reform Directions Paper (Directions Paper) was released on the NT Government’s ‘Have Your Say’ website in October 2018 for comment closing in March 2019. It discussed possible reforms to the water resource regulatory framework and demonstrated how the different elements might fit together to provide a comprehensive and contemporary management framework. The focus of the paper was on reform of the water allocation and licensing framework.

Notes

Made available by via Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT)

Table of contents

Purpose -- Background -- The reform goal, objectives and outcomes -- Water legislation reforms -- Policy guidance documents -- Administration -- The Report Card -- 1. Security of water supply for the future -- 2. Certainty and confidence in allocations -- 3. Highest value and efficient use -- 4. Responsive to changing circumstances and risk

Language

English

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Palmerston

Series

Technical Report ; 8/2021

Format

16 pages ; 30 cm

File type

application/pdf

ISBN

9781743502907

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/818197

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/818198