Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER RESOURCE (GOLD COAST) 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.      Subcatchment areas
   6.      Information about areas
   7.      Nodes
   8.      Water to which plan applies

           Part 3--Outcomes for sustainable management of water

   9.      Outcomes for water in plan area
   10.     General outcomes
   11.     Ecological outcomes

           Part 4--Performance indicators and objectives

           Division 1--Environmental flow objectives

   12.     Performance indicators for environmental flow objectives
   13.     Environmental flow objectives

           Division 2--Water allocation security objectives

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

           Part 5--Strategies for achieving outcomes

           Division 1--Decisions made under this plan

   16.     Application of div 1
   17.     Decisions consistent with objectives
   18.     Assessing impact of decisions
   19.     Decisions not to increase amount of water taken
   20.     Restriction on taking water from waterholes or lakes

           Division 2--General and strategic reserves

   21.     Unallocated water held as general or strategic reserve
   22.     Matters chief executive must consider
   23.     Granting unallocated water from the general reserve
   24.     Granting unallocated water from the strategic reserve

           Division 3--Process for granting and amending interim resource operations licence
           Subdivision 1--Preliminary

   25.     Process for Act, ss 176 and 184A
           Subdivision 2--Application or amendment after notice from chief executive
   26.     Applying for, or to amend, interim resource operations licence
   27.     Additional information may be required
   28.     Matters chief executive must consider
   29.     Deciding application for, or to amend, interim resource operations licence
           Subdivision 3--Amendment by chief executive
   30.     Amendment of interim resource operations licence by
   31.     Matters chief executive must consider
   32.     Deciding to amend interim resource operations licence
           Subdivision 4--Granting interim water allocations
   33.     Granting interim water allocations—Act, s 189

           Division 4--Resource operations licence for the Nerang water supply scheme

   34.     Water entitlements to be managed under a resource operations licence
   35.     Matters chief executive must consider

           Division 5--Converting authorisations to water allocations
           Subdivision 1--General

   36.     Application of div 5
   37.     Location for taking water
   38.     Purpose to be stated on water allocation
           Subdivision 2--Water allocations for taking supplemented water
   39.     Nominal volumes for water allocations to take supplemented water
   40.     Priority group for water allocations to take supplemented water
           Subdivision 3--Water allocations to take unsupplemented water
   41.     Elements of a water allocation to take unsupplemented water
   42.     Nominal volumes for water allocations to take unsupplemented water
   43.     Annual volumetric limit for taking unsupplemented water
   44.     Daily and monthly volumetric limits for taking unsupplemented water
   45.     Maximum rates for taking unsupplemented water
   46.     Conditions for water allocations to take unsupplemented water

           Division 6--Authorisations to take unsupplemented water

   47.     Amending water licences to take unsupplemented water
   48.     Annual volumetric limit for taking unsupplemented water
   49.     Maximum rates for taking unsupplemented water

           Division 7--Critical water supply strategy

   50.     Critical water supply strategy
   51.     Water sharing and infrastructure operating rules

           Division 8--Miscellaneous

   52.     Releasing water through fish ways
   53.     Measuring devices

           Part 6--Monitoring and reporting requirements

   54.     Monitoring
   55.     Monitoring programs to be undertaken by holders of resource operations licences
   56.     Resource operations licence holders to give reports
   57.     Minister's report on plan—Act, s 53

           Part 7--Implementing and amending this plan

   58.     Priorities for converting to, or granting, water allocations
   59.     Implementation schedule
   60.     Minor or stated amendment of plan—Act, s 57
   61.     Amending or replacing plan
           SCHEDULE 1 -- PLAN AREA
           SCHEDULE 2 -- SUBCATCHMENT AREAS
           SCHEDULE 3 -- SUBCATCHMENT AREA NAMES
           SCHEDULE 4 -- NODES
           SCHEDULE 5 -- ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW OBJECTIVES
           SCHEDULE 6 -- WATER ALLOCATION SECURITY OBJECTIVES
           SCHEDULE 7 -- GENERAL RESERVE
           SCHEDULE 8 -- UNSUPPLEMENTED WATER TO BE TAKEN
           SCHEDULE 9 -- RATES AND PUMP SIZES
           SCHEDULE 10 -- PRIORITY AREAS
           1. Priority area 1
           2. Priority area 2
           SCHEDULE 11 -- DICTIONARY
           Endnotes