Queensland Competition Authority Regulation 2018

This regulation may be cited as the Queensland Competition Authority Regulation 2018.

For section 20(1) of the Act, the government business activity of providing water and sewerage services by each of the following is declared to be a monopoly business activity—

Bundaberg Regional Council;

Cairns Regional Council;

Gold Coast City Council;

Logan City Council;

Mackay Regional Council;

Queensland Urban Utilities;

Redland City Council;

Rockhampton Regional Council;

Toowoomba Regional Council;

Townsville City Council;

Unitywater.

In this section—

Queensland Urban Utilities means the Central SEQ Distributor-Retailer Authority established under the South-East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring) Act 2009, section 8.

Unitywater means the Northern SEQ Distributor-Retailer Authority established under the South-East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring) Act 2009, section 8.

For section 245(2) of the Act, the fee payable to the authority for providing a service or performing a function mentioned in schedule 1 is the amount—

the authority considers to be reasonable; and

that is not more than the reasonable cost of providing the service or performing the function.

The amount may be recovered as a debt payable to the authority.

The Queensland Competition Authority Regulation 2007, SL No. 207 is repealed.

A reference in any document to the Queensland Competition Authority Regulation 2007 may, if the context permits, be taken to be a reference to this regulation.