Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER RESOURCE (GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN) PLAN 2006

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

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

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

   4.      Plan area
   5.      Management areas and management units
   6.      Maps held in digital electronic form
   7.      Water to which plan applies

           Part 3--Outcomes for sustainable management of water

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

           Part 4--Strategies for achieving outcomes

           Division 1--Preliminary

   9.      Strategies
   10.     Decisions about taking water

           Division 2--General strategies

   11.     Limitation on taking or interfering with water—Act, s 20(6)
   12.     Protection of springs

           Division 3--Mulgildie and Clarence Moreton management areas

   13.     Continued taking of water in Mulgildie management area authorised
   14.     Continued taking of water in Clarence Moreton management area authorised
   15.     Granting water licences

           Division 4--General and State reserves
           Subdivision 1--Preliminary

   16.     Unallocated water held as general or State reserve
   17.     Granting unallocated water
   18.     Matters chief executive must consider
   19.     Decisions about granting unallocated water for particular purposes
   20.     Granting water from general or State reserve
           Subdivision 2--General reserve
   21.     Application of sdiv 2
   22.     Limitation on volume of unallocated water granted
   23.     Limitation on use of unallocated water granted
           Subdivision 3--State reserve
   24.     Application of sdiv 3
   25.     Limitation on purpose for granting unallocated water
   26.     Limitation on volume of unallocated water granted

           Division 5--Resource operations plan

   27.     Details of water licences in resource operations plan
   28.     Water licences for town water supply purposes
   29.     Granting water from general reserve
   30.     Granting water from State reserve
   31.     Criteria for protection of flow of water to springs and baseflow to watercourses

           Division 6--Miscellaneous provisions

   32.     Consultation with other States
   33.     Water licence to replace particular authority to take water—Act, s 212
   34.     Amendment of water licences to state volumetric limit
   35.     Relationship with Integrated Planning Act 1997
   36.     Measuring devices

           Part 5--Monitoring and reporting requirements

   37.     Monitoring
   38.     Minister's report on plan—Act, s 53
   39.     Review of plan

           Part 6--Implementing and amending this plan

   40.     Implementation schedule
   41.     Stated amendment of plan—Act, s 56(4)
   42.     Minor or stated amendments of plan—Act, 57(b)
           SCHEDULE 1 -- PLAN AREA
           SCHEDULE 2 -- MANAGEMENT AREAS
           SCHEDULE 3 -- GATTON-ESK ROAD IMPLEMENTATION AREA
           SCHEDULE 4 -- MANAGEMENT AREAS AND MANAGEMENT UNITS
           SCHEDULE 5 -- GENERAL RESERVE
           SCHEDULE 6 -- DICTIONARY
           Endnotes