Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER PLAN (FITZROY BASIN) 2011 - REG 53

53 Applications for water licences that must not be accepted—Act, s 43

(1) For section 43 (2) (j) of the Act , the chief executive must not accept an application for a water licence made under section 107 of the Act unless the application—

(a) is an application to which part 2 , division 4 applies; or

(b) is made as part of a process for releasing unallocated water from the general reserve or strategic reserve; or

(c) is to interfere with the flow of surface water in a watercourse, lake or spring by diversion; or

(d) is to interfere with the flow of groundwater under land; or

(e) is to take water to facilitate the removal of mine site seepage or runoff from a watercourse.

(2) Subsection (1) (e) applies only if the water management protocol states that applications of the type mentioned in that subsection may be accepted.