Section 12

a well, borehole or similar structure, including any adit or passage constructed in connection with it for facilitating the collection of water in the well, borehole or structure; or

any excavation into underground strata, where the level of water in the excavation depends wholly or substantially on water entering it from those strata, shall be treated as groundwater contained in the underground strata into which the well, borehole or work was sunk, or the excavation was made, as the case may be.

the abstraction of groundwater by or on behalf of an individual as a supply of water for domestic purposes of his household: Provided the quantity of water abstracted shall not exceed 2500 litres per day;

any abstraction of groundwater in the course of, or resulting from, any operations for drainage of wet lands undertaken or approved by the Director of Irrigation and

Drainage, Sarawak;

in so far as the abstraction is necessary for mining or quarrying, carried out under the terms of a licence or permit issued under any written law, and the quantity of water abstracted does not exceed the amount allowed under the terms of such licence or permit.

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Abstraction of groundwater to be certified as safe for drinking