Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER RESOURCE (MOONIE) PLAN 2003

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 objective (s 10(a))
   12.     Environmental flow objectives (s 10(b) to (e))
   13.     Environmental flow objectives (assessing impact of decisions)

           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--Preliminary

   16.     Strategies

           Division 2--Decisions made under this plan

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

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

   22.     Application of div 3
   23.     Location for taking water
           Subdivision 2--Supplemented water
   24.     Nominal volume for supplemented water
           Subdivision 3--Unsupplemented water
   25.     Maximum rate for taking unsupplemented water
   26.     Conditions for taking unsupplemented water
   27.     Volumetric limit for unsupplemented water
   28.     Nominal volume for unsupplemented water

           Division 4--Resource operations plan

   29.     Water sharing rules
   30.     Deciding operating arrangements, supply requirements and environmental management rules
   31.     Resource operations plan to meet interstate obligations

           Division 5--Regulation of overland flow water

   32.     Limitation on taking overland flow water—Act, s 20(6)
   33.     Decisions about taking overland flow water
   34.     Taking water using existing works or reconfiguration of existing works authorised
   35.     Granting water licences for authorities under s 34
   36.     Granting or amending water licences under the resource operations plan
   37.     Relationship with Integrated Planning Act 1997

           Division 6--Strategic reserve

   38.     Unallocated water held as strategic reserve
   39.     Limitation on allocation of unallocated water
   40.     Dealing with unallocated water
   41.     Matters chief executive must consider
   41A.    Grant of unallocated water to CEWH

           Division 7--Miscellaneous provisions

   42.     Continued effect of moratorium notice—Act, s 46(3)
   43.     Measuring devices
   44.     Taking water from waterholes or lakes

           Part 6--Monitoring and reporting requirements

   45.     Monitoring
   46.     Monitoring programs undertaken by water infrastructure operators
   47.     Water infrastructure operators to give reports
   48.     Minister's report on plan—Act, s 53

           Part 7--Implementing and amending this plan

   49.     Implementation schedule
   50.     Minor or stated amendments of plan—Act, s 57
           SCHEDULE 1 PLAN AREA AND NODES
           SCHEDULE 2 NODE DESCRIPTIONS
           SCHEDULE 3 PUMP SIZES AND MAXIMUM RATES
           SCHEDULE 4 ALLOCATION OF UNALLOCATED WATER
           SCHEDULE 5 DICTIONARY
           Endnotes