Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If, immediately before the commencement of this section, an application made under the repealed Act for the approval of, or deferral of the requirement for, a land and water management plan had not been decided, the application must be decided as if the repealed Act had not been repealed.
(2) Subsection (3) applies to--
(a) each land and water management plan or deferral approved under or for the repealed Act and in force immediately before the commencement; and
(b) each plan or deferral approved under subsection (1).
(3) On the commencement--
(a) a plan mentioned in subsection (2) is taken to be a land and water management plan approved under section 77; and
(b) a deferral mentioned in subsection (2) is taken to be a deferral approved under section 82.
(4) A plan mentioned in subsection (3)(a) and taken to be a plan under this Act is taken to be approved under this Act for 10 years from the day the plan was approved under the repealed Act.
(5) A deferral mentioned in subsection (3)(b) and taken to be a deferral under this Act is a deferral for the period the deferral would have been in force if the repealed Act had not been repealed.
(6) The 'Guidelines for Land and Water Management Plans Mareeba-Dimbulah Irrigation Area July 1999' are taken to be guidelines issued under section 72.