Regional Legislative Decree No. 30/2017/M establishing the procedure for delimiting the public water domain in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. Country/Territory Madeira Islands (Portugal) Document type Legislation Date 2017 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Diário da República, Serie I, No. 165/2017 of 28 August 2017. Subject Land & soil, Water Keyword Land tenure Dispute settlement Procedural matters Zoning Inland waters Surface water Water rights Entry into force notes This Regional Legislative Decree enters into force 30 days after its publication. Abstract This Regional Legislative Decree, consisting of 14 articles, establishes the procedure for delimiting the public water domain in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The delimitation of the public water domain is the administrative procedure by which the line defining the extreme of the beds and banks of the public water domain bordering land of another nature is fixed. The delimitation procedure occurs when there are clear doubts as to the application of the legal criteria to the definition on the ground of the limits of the public water domain, in particular where there are doubts as to the limits of the public domain in relation to neighbouring buildings of a different nature. Full text Portuguese Website dre.pt References - Legislation Implements Law No. 54/2005 on the legal regime of water domain. Legislation | Portugal | 2005 Keyword: Land tenure, Basic legislation, Water rights, Freshwater resources management, Zoning, Authorization/permit, Classification/declassification, Concession, Expropriation, Inland waters, Surface water, Basin/catchment/watershed Source: FAO, FAOLEX