Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The regulations may provide for other transitional measures relating to the replacement of:
(a) the Murray - Darling Basin Commission; or
(b) the former MDB Agreement; or
(c) the former Murray - Darling Basin Ministerial Council.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), regulations under that subsection may provide for powers of the Murray - Darling Basin Commission or the former Murray - Darling Basin Ministerial Council:
(a) that were exercisable under the former MDB Agreement; and
(b) that are not otherwise provided for in this Act;
to be exercised by the Authority, the Basin Officials Committee or the Murray - Darling Basin Ministerial Council.
(3) Without limiting subsection (1), regulations under that subsection may provide for the ownership or control of weir no.5 Redbank and weir no.7 Maude.
(4) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (3) have effect despite section 239D.
No. 137, 2007
Compilation No. 33
Compilation date: 14 October 2024
Includes amendments: Act No. 38, 2024
This compilation is in 2 volumes
Schedules
Endnotes
Each volume has its own contents
About this compilation
This compilation
This is a compilation of the Water Act 2007 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 14 October 2024 (the compilation date ).
The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes ) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.
Uncommenced amendments
The effect of uncommenced amendments is not shown in the text of the compiled law. Any uncommenced amendments affecting the law are accessible on the Register (www.legislation.gov.au). The details of amendments made up to, but not commenced at, the compilation date are underlined in the endnotes. For more information on any uncommenced amendments, see the Register for the compiled law.
Application, saving and transitional provisions for provisions and amendments
If the operation of a provision or amendment of the compiled law is affected by an application, saving or transitional provision that is not included in this compilation, details are included in the endnotes.
Editorial changes
For more information about any editorial changes made in this compilation, see the endnotes.
If the compiled law is modified by another law, the compiled law operates as modified but the modification does not amend the text of the law. Accordingly, this compilation does not show the text of the compiled law as modified. For more information on any modifications, see the Register for the compiled law.
Self - repealing provisions
If a provision of the compiled law has been repealed in accordance with a provision of the law, details are included in the endnotes.
Contents
Part 11--Transitional arrangements for water resource plans
241 Transitional water resource plans
242 Interim water resource plans
243 Transitional water resource plans taken to have been accredited
244 Interim water resource plans taken to have been accredited
245 Operation of transitional water resource plans and interim water resource plans
246 Amendment of transitional water resource plans and interim water resource plans
247 Authority may provide assistance
Part 11A--Interactions with State laws
250A Meaning of Commonwealth water legislation
250B Concurrent operation intended
250C Commonwealth water legislation does not apply to matters declared by law of referring State to be excluded matters
250D Avoiding direct inconsistency arising between the Commonwealth water legislation and laws of referring States
250E Regulations may modify operation of the Commonwealth water legislation to deal with interaction between that legislation and laws of referring States
Part 12--Miscellaneous
251 Delegation by Minister
252 Instruments not invalid for failure to publish on website
252A Dataset for Murray - Darling Basin to be publicly available
253 Review of operation of Act
254 Compensation for acquisition of property
255 Act does not authorise compulsory acquisition of water access rights
255A Application of water charge rules in Basin States that are not referring States
255B Application of water market rules in Basin States that are not referring States
255C Transitional provisions relating to amendments
256 Regulations
Schedule 1--The Murray - Darling Basin Agreement
Schedule 1A--The Murray - Darling Basin
Schedule 2--Basin water charging objectives and principles
Part 1--Preliminary
1 Objectives and principles
Part 2--Water charging objectives
2 Water charging objectives
Part 3--Water charging principles
3 Water storage and delivery
4 Cost recovery for planning and management
5 Environmental externalities
6 Benchmarking and efficiency reviews
Schedule 3--Basin water market and trading objectives and principles
2 Objectives and principles
3 Basin water market and trading objectives
4 Basin water market and trading principles
Schedule 3A--Risk assignment framework
Part 1--Clauses 48 to 50 of the National Water Initiative
Part 2--Clause 10.1.3 of the Agreement on Murray - Darling Basin Reform of 3 July 2008
Schedule 4--Transitional water resource plans
Schedule 10--Transitional provisions relating to amendments
Part 1--Transitional provisions relating to the Water Amendment Act 2018
1 Application of amendments
2 Transitional
Part 2--Transitional provisions relating to the Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector - General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Act 2021
Division 1--Amendments to Schedule 1 to this Act made by regulations
1 Application of amendments--amendments to Schedule 1 to this Act made by regulations
Division 2--Other amendments
3 Appropriate enforcement agency
4 Legal proceedings involving the Murray - Darling Basin Authority
5 Enforceable undertakings
6 Enforcement notices
7 Public warning notices
8 Offences and civil penalty provisions
9 Credits to the Murray - Darling Basin Special Account
10 Disclosure of information by the Authority
11 Inquiry may relate to matters occurring before, on or after commencement day
12 Inspector - General's first annual work plan
13 Inspector - General's compliance powers
14 Declaration by the Authority before commencement day relating to restrictions on trading water access right
15 Declaration by the Authority before commencement day permitting application of exchange rate to trade of water access entitlement
16 Audits
17 Regulations may provide for other transitional matters relating to the Inspector - General
Part 3--Application provision relating to the Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Act 2023
1 Application of amendments
Endnotes
Endnote 1--About the endnotes
Endnote 2--Abbreviation key
Endnote 3--Legislation history
Endnote 4--Amendment history