31.     Appeals to the Minister

            (1) Any person who is aggrieved by the refusal of the Water Registrar to record an existing right or by any other decision made under section 13 or by the grant of or the refusal of the Board to grant or renew a water right, or by any conditions imposed when granting or renewing a water right, or by the determination or diminution or modification or suspension of any water right, or by the grant of or refusal to grant any servitude or by the conditions subject to which any servitude is created (other than matters to which the proviso to section 26(4) applies), or by any direction regarding the disposal of underground water abstracted from any workings, or by any requirement that any work should be repaired, added to, altered, demolished or removed, or that the use of any works be changed, may appeal to the Minister whose decision in the matter shall be final.

            (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) no person may appeal to the Minister against the grant or renewal of a water right or the grant of any servitude, who did not make objection to such grant or renewal under the provisions of sections 15(3) or 26(3), as the case may be.