The NSW Government is committed to increasing access to, and licensed ownership of, water for Aboriginal peoples and seeks registration of interest from Aboriginal legal entities for general water access licences held by the Minister for Water.

If you are an Aboriginal legal entity (as defined in the eligibility criteria below) and would like to get in touch about the registration of interest process, please register and we'll send you details to join a meeting.

Eligibility criteria

This registration of interest process is available only to Aboriginal legal entities that are not an individual person or a sole trader. Examples of legal entities include a company, a statutory body or an incorporated association. In addition to being a legal entity of this kind, you must meet both of the following two criteria:

You must be an Aboriginal-controlled entity. For the purposes of this registration of interest process, this means that you must be one or more of the following:
a) an Aboriginal Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth)
b) a Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC) under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW)
c) a Prescribed Body Corporate (PBC) under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth)
d) an Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisation (ACCO) as set out in clause 44 of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap
e) another kind of legal entity that is not an individual person or a sole trader and is at least 51% Aboriginal owned, managed and controlled as evidenced by the entity’s ASIC Company Extract, Constitution, Articles or Memorandum of the Aboriginal board of governance.
You must be based in NSW. For the purposes of this registration of interest process, this means that you must currently (that is, at the time you submit this form and at all times until you are notified of the outcome of this registration of interest process):
a) have some operations within NSW; and
b) satisfy one or both of the following criteria, you must:
i) have a current registered office in NSW or premises within NSW, and you must carry out operations from that office or premises; or
ii) list your main business location on the Australian Business Register as being in NSW.

Your privacy is important to us. Our stakeholder management system is compliant with NSW Government’s information security requirements. The data is stored in NSW for five years and users manage data under the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998. We will not disclose your personal information to anybody else unless you have given your consent or we are required to do so by law. More information on how the Department complies with privacy requirements can be found on our website.

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