Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER RESOURCE (FITZROY BASIN) PLAN 1999

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

           Part 4--Performance indicators and objectives

           Division 1--Environmental flow objectives

   10.     Performance indicators for environmental flow objectives
   11.     Environmental flow objectives

           Division 2--Water allocation security objectives

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

           Part 5--Strategies for achieving outcomes

           Division 1--Preliminary

   14.     Matters chief executive must consider
   15.     Decisions consistent with objectives
   16.     Assessing consistency with objectives
   17.     Restrictions on taking water
   18.     Amending existing authorisations for consistency with plan

           Division 2--Conversion of authorisations to water allocations
           Subdivision 1--General provisions

   19.     Application of div 2
   20.     Location for taking water
           Subdivision 2--Supplemented water
   21.     Nominal volume for supplemented water
   22.     Priority groups for water allocations
   23.     Total water allocations for water supply schemes
           Subdivision 3--Unsupplemented water
   24.     Nominal volume for unsupplemented water
   25.     Volumetric limit for unsupplemented water
   26.     Maximum rate for taking unsupplemented water

           Division 3--Dealing with unallocated water

   27.     Limitation on granting unallocated water
   28.     Water for proposed Nathan Dam project

           Division 4--Regulation of overland flow water

   28A.    Limitation on taking overland flow water—Act, s 20(6)
   28B.    Taking overland flow water using small storages
   28C.    Decisions about taking overland flow water
   28D.    Taking water using existing works or reconfiguration of existing works authorised
   28E.    Granting water licences for authorities under s 28D
   28F.    Granting or amending water licences under the resource operations plan
   28G.    Relationship with Integrated Planning Act 1997

           Division 5--Miscellaneous provisions

   28H.    Continued effect of moratorium notice—Act, s 46(3)
   28I.    Measuring devices

           Part 6--Monitoring and reporting requirements

   29.     Water monitoring requirements for resource operations licence holders
   30.     Water and natural ecosystem monitoring requirements

           Part 7--Implementing this plan

   31.     Implementation schedule

           Part 8--Minister's report and amending plan

   32.     Minister's report on plan—Act, s 53
   33.     Minor or stated amendments of plan—Act, s 57
           SCHEDULE 1 PLAN AREA
           SCHEDULE 2 ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW OBJECTIVES
           SCHEDULE 3 WATER ALLOCATION SECURITY OBJECTIVES
           SCHEDULE 4 CRITERIA FOR AMENDING AUTHORISATIONS
           SCHEDULE 5 EXISTING AND FUTURE WATER SUPPLY SCHEMES
           SCHEDULE 6 DICTIONARY
           Endnotes