WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 1014 Regulation-making power

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 1014

1014 Regulation-making power

(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations under this Act.

(2) A regulation may—

(a) fix fees and charges (other than titles registry fees) payable under this Act, including, for example, for the taking and supplying of water under this Act and for drainage and resource management services; and

(b) create offences against the regulation and fix a maximum penalty of a fine of 20 penalty units for an offence against the regulation; and

(c) state, in relation to meters, the following—

(i) when a meter must be installed to measure the volume of water taken, the rate at which it is taken and the time it is taken;

(ii) who may install the meter;

(iii) who must pay, and the arrangements for payment, for the installation, maintenance and reading of the meter;

(iv) the minimum standards for the design, construction, installation and maintenance of meters;

(v) processes for ensuring faults in meters are identified and repaired; and

(d) state the minimum standards for the construction and decommissioning of works relating to aquifers; and

(e) prescribe processes for dealings with water licences; and

(f) state the effect of land dealings, or acquisition of land, on water licences; and

(g) state, for the Planning Act , the requirements that the following operational work must comply with to be categorised as accepted development under that Act—

(i) operational work that allows taking or interfering with water;

(ii) operational work that is the construction or modification of a levee; and

(h) state the information to be contained in, the returns and the times for giving returns to the chief executive by a person about State quarry material or other material removed by the person from a watercourse or lake; and

(i) declare a water service to be exempt from the requirement of a bulk water supply agreement for the supply of the water service; and

(j) declare, for chapter 2A , part 3 , an entity to be—

(i) a bulk water customer; or

(ii) a code-regulated entity; or

(iii) an SEQ bulk supplier.