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WATER AMENDMENT BILL 2008

                                    2008

               THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA


                          HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


                          WATER AMENDMENT BILL 2008


                FURTHER SUPPLEMENTARY EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM


             Amendments to be Moved on Behalf of the Government


   (Circulated by authority of the Minister for Climate Change and Water,
                     Senator the Honourable Penny Wong)


NOTES ON INDIVIDUAL CLAUSES

Senate Amendment (16) - Page 326 (after line 32), at the end of the bill

1. The Senate passed an amendment to the Bill on 27 November 2008 to insert
   a new schedule in the Water Amendment Bill 2008:


       Schedule 4-Amendments related to the recognition of Indigenous water
           rights

       Water Act 2007

       10  After paragraph 202(3)(b)
       Insert:
            and (c) an Indigenous water subcommittee, to guide the
           consideration of Indigenous matters relevant to the Basin's
           water resources;

       11  At the end of subsection 202(5)
       Add:
            ; and (c) an individual with expertise in Indigenous matters
           relevant to the Basin's water resources.


2. The title of Schedule 4 does not reflect its substantive content and an
   amendment is proposed to rename it "Schedule 4 - Amendments related to
   Indigenous Representation on the Basin Community Committee".