WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 112
Public notice of application for water licence
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 112
Public notice of application for water licence
112 Public notice of application for water licence
(1) This section applies if the chief executive is satisfied the application
has been properly made and the applicant has given the chief executive any
additional information requested for the application.
(2) However, this
section does not apply if—
(a) the application is for taking underground
water only for domestic purposes or watering stock of a number that would
normally be depastured on the land to which the application relates; or
(b)
the chief executive is satisfied granting the application would be
inconsistent with a water plan.
(3) The chief executive must publish, on a
Queensland Government website, a notice (a
"public submissions notice" ) that—
(a) states the application has been
made; and
(b) includes the following information—
(i) the location of the
proposed taking of, or interference with, water;
(ii) where copies of the
application may be inspected;
Example—
a Queensland Government website
(iii) that written submissions may be made by any entity about the
application;
(iv) a day, that is not earlier than 30 business days after the
day the notice is published, by which submissions must be made;
(v) the
person to whom submissions must be made.
(4) The chief executive may, by
written notice, require the applicant to publish a copy of the
public submissions notice for the period, and in the way, stated in the
written notice.
(5) Within 10 business days after the applicant publishes the
copy of the public submissions notice under subsection (4) , the applicant
must give the chief executive evidence of the publication.
(6) The
application lapses if the applicant fails, without a reasonable excuse, to
comply with—
(a) the written notice mentioned in subsection (4) ; or
