WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 1037A
Other continuing authorities
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 1037A
Other continuing authorities
1037A Other continuing authorities
(1) Subsection (2) applies to a following entity if, immediately before the
commencement of this section, the entity was taking or interfering with water
to which this Act applies—
(b) Toowoomba
City Council in relation to the Cooby Creek Dam.
(2) A local government
mentioned in subsection (1)(a), or Toowoomba Regional Council in relation to
the Cooby Creek Dam, is taken to hold an authority under this Act to take or
interfere with water and the authority continues under this Act until
whichever of the following first happens—
(a) the chief executive grants a
water licence to replace the authority;
(b) the authority is replaced with a
water entitlement, interim resource operations licence, resource operations
licence or distribution operations licence.
(a) to the extent the
special agreement Act authorises the taking of, or interfering with, water;
and
(b) if, immediately before the commencement of this section, the entity
was taking or interfering with water to which this Act applies.
(4) An entity
mentioned in subsection (3)—
(a) continues to hold the authority to take or
interfere with water under the special agreement Act; and
(b) is taken to
also hold an authority under this Act to take or interfere with water.
(5) An
authority under this Act to take or interfere with water, held by the SEQ
Water and in force on 12 April 2003, continues under this Act until whichever
of the following first happens—
(a) the chief executive grants a water
licence to replace the authority;
(b) the authority is replaced with a water
entitlement, interim resource operations licence, resource operations licence
or distribution operations licence.
(6) The chief executive may grant a water
licence under subsection (2)(a) or (5)(a) without the need for an application
to be made under section 206.