Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER PLAN (GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN AND OTHER REGIONAL AQUIFERS) 2017

- Made under the Water Act 2000
- As at 2 September 2017
- Reg 164 of 2017

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Purposes of plan
   4.      Definitions
   5.      Meaning of groundwater-dependent ecosystem

   PART 2 - PLAN AREA AND WATER TO WHICH PLAN APPLIES

   6.      Water to which plan applies
   7.      Plan area
   8.      Groundwater units
   9.      Groundwater sub-areas
   10.     Zones
   11.     Information about areas

   PART 3 - ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOMES

   12.     Outcomes for management and allocation of water in plan area

   PART 4 - STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING OUTCOMES

           Division 1 - Preliminary

   13.     Strategies
   14.     Decision to not increase amount of water taken
   15.     Decision not to change location from which water may be taken

           Division 2 - Unallocated water

              Subdivision 1 - General

   16.     Unallocated water held as reserves
   17.     Purposes for which unallocated water may be granted
   18.     Limitations on granting water from general, State or Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders economic reserve
   19.     Volume of unallocated water that may be granted from reserves
   20.     Water granted from State reserve
   21.     Water from cancelled, surrendered or expired licences

              Subdivision 2 - Processes for releasing unallocated water

   22.     Processes for releasing unallocated water
   23.     Matters chief executive must consider
   24.     Granting unallocated water from a reserve

           Division 3 - Limitations on taking or interfering with water

   25.     Limitations on taking or interfering with water—Act, s 101
   26.     Taking water for stock or domestic purposes
   27.     Taking or interfering with water to monitor aquifer
   28.     Other taking or interfering with water

           Division 4 - Restoring and maintaining groundwater pressure

              Subdivision 1 - Preliminary

   29.     Meaning of controlled and watertight delivery system for a water bore

              Subdivision 2 - Requirements for taking water for stock or domestic purposes

   30.     Application of subdivision
   31.     Requirement for water tight delivery system to take water
   32.     Notice that water bore is not controlled or does not distribute water by pipeline
   33.     Water licence to require installation of watertight delivery system for water bore
   34.     Licensees obligations within first year
   35.     Chief executive must consider whether time for installation is reasonable

              Subdivision 3 - Requirements for taking water for purposes other than stock or domestic purposes

   36.     Application of subdivision
   37.     Water bore must be controlled and minimise water loss
   38.     Notice that water bore is not controlled
   39.     Holder’s obligations within first year

           Division 5 - Ensuring water licence decisions protect flows of water to groundwater-dependent ecosystems, existing licences and particular authorisations

   40.     Application of division
   41.     Protecting the flow of water to groundwater-dependent ecosystems
   42.     Protecting existing water licences and particular authorisations to take water
   43.     Chief executive may require investigation, studies or hydrogeological assessment

           Division 6 - Requiring water licences to state volumetric limits

   44.     Water licences must state volumetric limit
   45.     Deciding volumetric limit for a water licence

   PART 5 - WATER LICENCES

           Division 1 - Preliminary

   46.     Effect of part
   47.     Consultation with other States

           Division 2 - Applications to amend water licences that require watertight delivery systems

   48.     Application of division
   49.     Requirement for application
   50.     Chief executive may amend water licence

           Division 3 - Granting water licences for water saved from bore works

   51.     Definitions for division
   52.     Application of division
   53.     Applying for water licence
   54.     Granting water licence to take percentage of volume of saved water
   55.     Effect of water licence if granted before watertight delivery system installed

           Division 4 - Facilitating make good obligations and make good conditions

   56.     Application of division
   57.     Amending water licence for make good obligations or make good condition

   PART 6 - IMPLEMENTING AND AMENDING THIS PLAN

           Division 1 - Implementing this plan

   58.     Water management protocol

           Division 2 - Amending this plan

   59.     Stated amendments of plan—Act, s 51

   PART 7 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

           Division 1 - Preliminary

   60.     Definitions for part

           Division 2 - General provisions

   61.     Groundwater units and groundwater sub-areas for existing water licences
   62.     Existing applications for water licences
   63.     Existing decisions about water licences not affected

           Division 3 - Existing taking of water

   64.     Limitations on taking or interfering with water—Act, s 101
   65.     Continued taking of water from existing water bore is authorised
   66.     Continued taking of water from particular water bores for stock or domestic purposes is authorised
   67.     Continued taking of water for existing prescribed activities
   68.     Granting water licences

           Division 4 - Unallocated water in the Surat Basin

   69.     Existing applications for unallocated water in the Surat Basin for town water supply purposes
   70.     Eligibility for water licence for particular projects in the Surat Basin
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