Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER RESOURCE (CONDAMINE AND BALONNE) PLAN 2004

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Purposes of plan
   4.      Definitions

           Part 2--Plan area and water to which plan applies

   5.      Plan area
   6.      Information about plan area
   7.      Nodes
   8.      Water to which plan applies

           Part 3--Outcomes for sustainable management of water

   9.      Outcomes, including ecological outcomes, for the plan area

           Part 4--Performance indicators and objectives

           Division 1--Environmental flow objectives

   10.     Performance indicators for environmental flow objectives
   11.     Environmental flow objectives
   12.     Environmental flow objectives (assessing impact of decisions)

           Division 2--Water allocation security objectives

   13.     Performance indicators for water allocation security objectives
   14.     Water allocation security objectives

           Part 5--Strategies for achieving outcomes

           Division 1--Preliminary

   15.     Strategies

           Division 2--Decisions made under this plan

   16.     Application of div 2
   17.     Decisions not to increase amount of water taken
   18.     Decisions consistent with objectives
   19.     Assessing impact of decisions
   20.     Calculation of performance indicators

           Division 3--Conversion of authorisations to water allocations
           Subdivision 1--General

   21.     Application of div 3
   22.     Authorisations relating to a single property
   23.     Location for taking water
   24.     Unused authorisations in the upper and middle catchment
           Subdivision 2--Supplemented water
   25.     Nominal volume for supplemented water
           Subdivision 3--Unsupplemented water
   26.     Maximum rate for taking unsupplemented water
   27.     Conditions for taking unsupplemented water
   28.     Volumetric limit for unsupplemented water in the upper and middle catchment
   29.     Volumetric limit for unsupplemented water in the Lower Balonne
   30.     Nominal volume for unsupplemented water

           Division 4--Resource operations plan
           Subdivision 1--General

   31.     Preparation of resource operations plan
   32.     Water sharing rules for water in plan area
   33.     Additional water sharing rules for water in the upper and middle catchment
   34.     Additional water sharing rules for water in the Lower Balonne
   35.     Deciding operating arrangements, supply requirements and environmental management rules
   36.     Resource operations plan to meet interstate obligations
           Subdivision 2--Event management rules for the Lower Balonne
   37.     Flow event management
   38.     Managing low flows
   39.     Managing medium flow events
   40.     Managing Narran Lakes filling flow events
   41.     Application of rules mentioned in ss 38-40
   42.     Compensation rules for flow event management
           Subdivision 3--Other rules for the Lower Balonne
   43.     Water sharing rules for the St George Water Supply Scheme

           Division 5--Regulation of overland flow water

   44.     Limitation on taking overland flow water—Act, s 20(6)
   45.     Decisions about taking overland flow water
   46.     Taking water using existing works or reconfiguration of existing works authorised
   47.     Granting water licences for authorities under s 46
   48.     Granting or amending water licences under the resource operations plan process
   49.     Water licences for taking overland flow water in the Lower Balonne
   50.     Relationship with Integrated Planning Act 1997

           Division 6--Miscellaneous provisions

   51.     Continued effect of moratorium notice—Act, s 46(3)
   52.     Measuring devices
   53.     Taking water from waterholes or lakes

           Part 6--Monitoring and reporting requirements

   54.     Monitoring
   55.     Monitoring programs undertaken by water infrastructure operators
   56.     Water infrastructure operators to give reports
   57.     Minister's report on plan—Act, s 53

           Part 7--Implementing and amending this plan

           Division 1--General

   58.     Implementation schedule
   59.     Minor or stated amendments of plan—Act, s 57

           Division 2--Advisory councils

   60.     Establishment of advisory councils
   61.     Membership of advisory councils
   62.     Role of advisory councils
           SCHEDULE 1 PLAN AREA AND NODES
           SCHEDULE 2 NODE DESCRIPTIONS
           SCHEDULE 3 PUMP SIZES AND MAXIMUM RATES
           SCHEDULE 4 VOLUMETRIC LIMITS IN THE LOWER BALONNE
           SCHEDULE 5 DICTIONARY
           Endnotes