Queensland Numbered Acts

WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 No. 34 - SECT 738

Chapter 8--

insert--

'(1) This section applies to Mount Isa Mines Limited ACN 009 661 447 (the entity) to the extent a special agreement Act authorises the entity to take or interfere with water in relation to Rifle Creek Dam and Lake Moondarra.

'(2) The authority continues under the special agreement Act until the chief executive grants the entity the water allocation under the resource operations plan to replace part of the Lake Moondarra authority.

'(3) Subsection (2) applies despite section 1037A(3) and (4) and anything to the contrary in the special agreement Act that applies to the entity.

Editor's note--

section 1037A (Other continuing authorities)

'(4) To remove any doubt, it is declared that nothing in this section affects the water licence, held by the entity, to take water from Rifle Creek.

'(5) In this section--

Lake Moondarra authority means the authority for taking water from Lake Moondarra--

(a) granted under the Order in Council published in the gazette on 14 August 1976 at page 1987; and

(b) continued under section 1089.

resource operations plan means the resource operations plan that implements the Water Resource (Gulf) Plan 2007.

special agreement Act see the Environmental Protection Act 1994, section 614(2).

'This part applies to the authority held by SEQ Water, to take or interfere with water, continued in force under section 1037A.

Editor's note--

section 1037A (Other continuing authorities)

'The holder of each of the following authorities, to take water made available by SEQ Water under its authority, must have a supply contract with SEQ Water for the holder's water entitlement--

(a) a licence issued under part 4 of the repealed Act to take water for irrigation purposes from the section of the Brisbane River between Wivenhoe Dam and Mt Crosby Weir and taken, under section 1048A, to be a water entitlement under this Act;

Editor's note--

section 1048A (Existing licences, permits and approvals)

(b) an authority under the repealed Act, to take water, that--

(i) was in force on the commencement of the repealed Water Resources Regulation 1999, section 15B; and

(ii) relates to the section of the Brisbane River between Wivenhoe Dam and Mt Crosby Weir; and

(iii) is taken, under section 1048A, to be a water entitlement under this Act;

(c) a water entitlement granted under this Act to take water from the section of the Brisbane River between Wivenhoe Dam and Mt Crosby Weir.

'(1) The chief executive may approve a standard supply contract for the storage and supply, by SEQ Water, of water under the authorities mentioned in section 992C.

'(2) The chief executive must gazette the approval.

'(3) On the commencement of this section, the standard supply contract applies to an authority unless the holder of the authority and SEQ Water have a supply contract.

'(4) The parties to a standard supply contract must review the contract within 1 year after the contract takes effect.

'The holder of authority to take water, mentioned in section 992C, is a customer of a service provider for the Water Supply Act.

'SEQ Water may recover, from each holder of an authority mentioned in section 992C to whom the standard supply contract applies, the reasonable cost to SEQ Water of--

(a) a water meter to measure the volume of water taken under the authority; and

(b) installing, reading and maintaining the water meter.'.