Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER PLAN (BURNETT BASIN) 2014 - REG 79

79 Nominal volume for water allocation

(1) In deciding the nominal volume for the water allocation, the chief executive must have regard to the following—

(a) the local availability of water;

(b) the conditions under which water may be taken under the water licence from which the allocation is being converted;

(c) for a water licence that states a volumetric limit—the stated volumetric limit;

(d) the simulated mean annual diversion for the proposed water allocation.

(2) In this section—

"simulated mean annual diversion" , for a proposed water allocation, means the total volume of water simulated to have been taken under the proposed water allocation, as if the proposed water allocation were in existence for the whole of the IQQM simulation period, divided by the number of years in the IQQM simulation period.