(The 76th ordinary meeting of the Government of the Northern Province, 14 December 2010, was considered by the People's Government Order No. 16 of 25 December 2010 [2010] of 25 December 2010] to be published as from 1 February 2011,

Article 1 promotes the rational development, use, savings and protection of water resources, in accordance with the provisions of the Water Act of the People's Republic of China, the Regulations on the Access to Water and Water Resources, and develops this approach in the light of the actual provisions of the province.

Article 2 imposes and administers water resources in the administrative areas of this province and must comply with this approach.

Article 3

The Government's financial, price authorities and water administration authorities are working together on the management and oversight of water resources costs, in accordance with their respective responsibilities.

Article IV units and individuals using water access works or facilities directly from rivers, crickes, lakes, water banks or land, shall pay water resources in accordance with the provisions of this approach, in addition to:

(i) Rural collective economic organizations and their members have access to water from the ponds of this collective economic organization;

(ii) In areas not covered by the rural and urban water supply network, water needs to be dispersed for the family life of the population;

(iii) A small range of water harvests such as sporadic nutrients, sal livestock and poultry;

(iv) In order to secure construction safety and production safety in underground areas, such as mine wells, the need for temporary emergency (emission) water;

(v) Other cases provided for by law, administrative regulations.

Article 5 Agricultural production of water is not paid for water resources within the prescribed limits. Access to water exceeds the agricultural production water limit, and more than partially water is paid by water units or individuals.

The criteria and the cost of water resources for agricultural production have been charged by provincial water administrations with provincial finances, agriculture, price authorities, and the implementation of the provincial government's approval.

Article 6. Water resources costs are charged by the authorities of water administrations at the district level, in accordance with the authorization of water. Of these, water was approved by the watershed management body, which was charged by the provincial water administration authorities.

The top-level water administrative authorities may entrust the lower-level water administrative authorities with the payment of water resources and entrust the collection of written form.

Article 7. Access to water units or individuals should install measurement facilities in accordance with national technical standards, and water resource costs are charged on the basis of actual water. Water-powered water (including pumping water) and fire-dependent refrigeration can be charged with water resources based on actual electricity generation.

Water access units or individuals should provide water-related information to the water administration authorities in practice.

Unquantifiable facilities, as well as metric facilities are not qualified or operated in a normal manner, are approved by the water administration authorities for the largest access to water resources by day.

Article 8 quantification of water resources costs is established by provincial price authorities in conjunction with provincial finances, water administration authorities, post-approved implementation by the Government of the Provincial People and back-up to the relevant Department of State.

Article 9. Access to water units or individuals must be taken in accordance with plans approved by the water administration authorities. Overplanned water harvests, the water administration authorities should collect water resources on the basis of the following provisions:

(i) To spend more than 20 per cent of the quantity of water than planned, more than five times the standard for water resource fees;

(ii) To spend more than 20 to 40 per cent of the water harvest than planned, and more than twice as much as the standard of water cost;

(iii) For more than 40 per cent of the water harvesting than planned, more than three times the cost of water resources.

Water receipts have not been approved by the water administration authorities, and the water resource collection rate is four times higher.

Article 10, which has been approved for the use of groundwater in the area of groundwater overexception, has been charged twice as much as the water resource charges are applied, with the use of groundwater in the area of severe groundwater overexception.

Article 11. The water administration authorities shall send a notice of the payment of water resources in the northern province of the River to the water unit or to individuals by month. The water receipt unit or the individual shall pay the water resources in accordance with the provisions of the notice orders within 7 days of the date of receipt of the notification, without the payment, delay or payment of water resources.

The payment of water resources for less than one thousand dollars per month could be charged on a quarterly basis.

The northern province of the River has been established by the provincial water administration authorities.

Article 12. The collection of water resources costs shall be subject to a licence of royalties issued by the same price authority and a specialized ticket for the uniform printing of the provincial financial sector.

Article 13. Access to water resources payments by water units or individuals may be taken into account by the enterprise and the administrative unit is charged from the regular budget.

Article 14. The top-level water administration authorities should be free of charge or in full, and the top-level water administrative authorities could be directly charged.

No unit or individual shall be allowed to borrow water resources. In particular hardships, there is a need for relief of water resources, for which water units or individuals have submitted written requests to the responsible water administration authorities, which are subject to approval by the provincial water administration authorities in conjunction with the same level of finance, price authorities, and with the advice of the provincial governor's financial, price authorities.

Article 16 provides for water resources collected by the municipal, district-level people's government water administration authorities, which are distributed in the form and proportion of contributions provided by the Government of the province and its financial sector.

Article 17 Water resources costs should be fully included in the management of the financial budget, with special funds not to be expropriated, retained, misappropriated, seated and seized.

The water administration authorities should prepare budgets for expenditure on water resources at the same level of finance, declare annual use plans and integrate financial sector budgetary arrangements in the approved sector.

The use of water resources relates to fixed-term asset investment and should be integrated into the integrated arrangement of the fixed asset investment plan.

The water resource costs incurred should be earmarked for:

(i) Assessment, planning, distribution and related criteria for water resource surveys;

(ii) Monitoring the implementation of water licences and movement of water resources;

(iii) Protection and management of the lakes and watersheds;

(iv) The development and dissemination of information on water resources management;

(v) Policy regulation on water-saving, standard system-building and promotion of scientific research, new technologies and product development;

(vi) The provision of subsidies and loans for water demonstration projects and the extension of pilot applications;

(vii) Support for the disposal of water resource emergencies;

(viii) Awareness-raising and incentives for the conservation of water resources;

(ix) Sound development of water resources.

The end-of-year savings for water resources have been transferred to the next year.

Article 19

(i) No provision for the collection, removal and allocation of nuclear water resources;

(ii) The use of water resources for specified purposes;

(iii) Expropriation, seizure, misappropriation, seating and seizure of water resources;

(iv) Urgent approval for the reduction of water resources;

(v) Other acts of negligence, abuse of authority, favouring private fraud.

Intrusive, inter alia, retention, misappropriation, seating and seizure of water resources should be recovered by law.

Article 20, in violation of article 11, paragraph 1, of this approach, is punishable by the water administration authorities in accordance with the relevant provisions of the People's Republic of China Water Act; in serious circumstances, it is responsible for halting water access.

Article 21, in violation of this approach, impedes the collection of water resources and the enforcement of their functions by the public security authorities in accordance with the Law on the Safety and Security of the People's Republic of China; and criminalizes by law.

Article 2 On 27 July 1988, the Government of the People of the province issued a provisional provision on water resource charges in the northern province of the River and in the following areas.