WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 1111
Granting interim resource operations licence to corporatised entity
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 1111
Granting interim resource operations licence to corporatised entity
1111 Granting interim resource operations licence to corporatised entity
(1) Within 30 business days after this division commences, the chief executive
must grant and give to the corporatised entity an interim resource operations
licence for Julius Dam and for each irrigation or project area under the Water
Resources (Rates and Charges) Regulation 1992 the corporatised entity operated
both immediately before and immediately after the entity was corporatised.
(2) Each licence must state, for the licence—
(a) all the elements mentioned
in section 177; and
(b) the interim water allocations to be granted to the
corporatised entity under section 1112 for water losses, unallocated water and
water for the supply of customers who are not to be granted or taken to hold
an interim water allocation under section 1113 or 1114; and
(c) details of
existing customers of the corporatised entity who are to be granted interim
water allocations other than those customers who hold interim water
allocations taken to be granted under section 1114; and
(d) details of
existing customers of the corporatised entity who are not to be granted or
taken to hold interim water allocations; and
(e) details of other existing
water supply responsibilities.
(3) Within 30 business days after the granting
of the interim resource operations licence, the chief executive must give the
customers mentioned in subsection (2)(c) and (d) an information notice about
the granting of the licence.
(4) Sections 178 to 186 apply to each licence as
if the licence were a licence granted under chapter 2, part 5.
(5) Each
licence takes effect from the day the holder of the licence is given the
licence.
(6) Although a customer mentioned in subsection (2)(d) does not get
an interim water allocation, the customer is entitled to the continued supply
of water under the authority.
