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Rural Water Licences and Application Forms

A Rural Water Licence has been issued to each existing Coliban Rural System customer for the current agreed volume. The Licence authorises a customer to take and use water from the channels and pipeline in the Coliban Rural System.

The Licence is:

For a 15-year term
Renewable
Transferrable

Each issued Licence to take and use water from the Coliban Rural System includes specific customer details and general conditions that apply to all licences. The Rural Water Licences have been the instrument of entitlement since July 1999.

> Licence Renewal

At any time during the 15-year period of the licence, you may apply to Coliban Water to have the licences renewed. The Water Act 1989 specifies that Coliban Water must renew the licence unless there are good reasons not to do so. Conditions of the licence may be amended at the time of renewal and generally the period of the licence will be extended to 15 years from that time.

> Relinquishing Water

You can relinquish all or part of your licence volume to Coliban Water. Although you will not receive any monetary compensation for the capacity relinquished, you also won’t have to pay any future capacity charges on the volume relinquished or an administration fee.

To relinquish water please complete the ‘Surrender a water licence’ application form and post, email or fax it to Coliban Water. The form needs to be signed by all parties on the licence.

If you relinquish all or part of your licence volume, you will not be able to receive it back from Coliban Water. However, you may be able to purchase more licence volume privately.

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