This Act may be cited as the Water and Soil Conservation Amendment Act 1968, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Water and Soil Conservation Act 1967 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section 21 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “or any other Act”, and substituting the words “, or as expressly authorised under the Mining Act 1926 by a mining privilege in respect of water granted after the ninth day of September, nineteen hundred and sixty-six, or as expressly authorised under any other Act by any right granted during the period commencing after the ninth day of September, nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and ending not later than the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, or as expressly authorised by any other Act (whether before or after the passing of this Act) in respect of any specified natural water”.

Section 34 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting in subsection (1), after the word “Act” where it secondly appears, the words “or in accordance with an exception from the provisions of this Act”.