WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 365
Declaring cumulative management areas
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 365
Declaring cumulative management areas
365 Declaring cumulative management areas
(1) This section applies if the chief executive considers an area containing 2
or more resource tenures may be affected by the exercise of underground water
rights by the tenure holders.
(2) The chief executive may, by gazette notice,
declare the area to be a cumulative management area for resource tenures
identified in the gazette notice.
(3) The gazette notice must describe the
area for which the declaration is made.
(3A) The gazette notice may identify
resource tenures specifically or generally, including resource tenures granted
in the cumulative management area after the declaration is published in the
gazette.
(3B) If the area of an identified resource tenure is partly within
and partly outside the cumulative management area, the chief executive may
decide whether the tenure, or part of the tenure, is a CMA tenure and, in
deciding this, must have regard to—
(a) the impacts on underground water
caused by, or likely to be caused by, the exercise of underground water rights
by the tenure holder; and
(b) advice from the Office of Groundwater Impact
Assessment, the tenure holder and any other entity the chief executive
considers appropriate.
(4) The chief executive must, within 20 business
days—
(a) give notice of the declaration to the office and each CMA tenure
holder in the cumulative management area, other than the holder of a closing
CMA tenure; and
(b) publish a map showing the cumulative management area on a
Queensland Government website.
(5) A failure to comply with subsection (4)
does not invalidate or otherwise affect the declaration of the cumulative
management area in relation to the identified resource tenures.