Statutory Instrument 21 of 2011
[CAP. 20:24]
Water (Subcatchment Council Rates) (Amendment) Regulations,
2011 (No. 5)
THE Minister of Water Resources and Infrastructural Development has, in terms of section 119 of the Water Act [Chapter 20:24], and after consultations with the Subcatchment Councils, hereby make the following regulations:-
1. These regulations may be cited as the Water (Subcatchment Councils Rates) (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 (No. 5).
2. The Water (Subcatchment Councils Rates) Regulations, 2005, published in Statutory Instrument 6 of 2005 (hereinafter called “the principal regulations”), are amended by the repeal of section 2 (b) and the substitution of –
“(b) in respect of the direct abstraction of water by a permit holder or other levies as outlined in the schedule, shall be an amount per quarter obtained by applying the following formula –
C x D
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In which –
C. represents the total volume in megalitres of the water permitted to be abstracted under permit;
D. represents the rate specified in the second column of the Schedule.
3. The principal regulations is amended by the repeal of the Schedule and the substitution of –
“Schedule (Section 3)
Applicable
rate
US$/ml
Raw water use for –
Local Authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0,75
Industries and Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,00
Commercial farming-watering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,00
Water bottling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00
Beverage purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,00
Authority to drill (Commercial purposes) (per application or allocation) . . . . . . . 60,00
Authority to drill (urban household) ( per application or allocation) . . . . . . . . . 30,00
Ground water permit application institutionalised . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,00
Ground water permit application – urban use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,00
Surface water permit (per application or allocation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,00
Permit amendments (per application or allocation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,00
Permit partitioning, consolidation (per application or allocation) . . . . . . . . . . . 15,00
Permit cancellation (per application or allocation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,00
Permit renewal, extension (per application or allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,00
Ground water use – urban household monitoring (quarterly) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,00
Ground water use – institutional use (quarterly) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,00
Recreational use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,00
Late registration penalty – urban household (late allocation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,00
Late registration penalty – commercial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,00
Late registration penalty – institutional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,00
Tampering with dam basin and river beds (per) offence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,00
4. Section (3) is amended by the insertion of the following after (a) –
“(b) the stakeholder group concerned shall elect another representative to represent its interests:
Provided it is not re-assigning the previous representative regardless of his or her professional expertise to encourage rotation of participation in Catchment and Subcatchment Council business on the basis on a micro-catchments approach that promotes aerial stakeholder representation;
(c) members that vacate the office after one to three years shall not be eligible to come back on board until after six years;
(d) members that vacate to office after more than three years shall be eligible for re-election after nine years of non-participation in subcatchment council business;
(e) in the event that any of the following in section (2) (a), (b), (c) have not been implemented accordingly; the returning officer shall in consultation with the Minister determine a third of the sitting members who shall remain for the sake of institutional memory, these chosen members shall be the first to drop out in the next Annual General Meeting.”.
5. The Water (Subcatchment Council Rates) (Amendment) Regulations, 2009. (No.4) published in Statutory Instrument 127 of 2009, erroniously published as “No. 3”, are repealed.