Water Act 2000

This section applies if the chief executive is satisfied the application has been properly made and the applicant has given the chief executive any additional information requested for the application.

However, this section does not apply if—

the application is for taking underground water only for domestic purposes or watering stock of a number that would normally be depastured on the land to which the application relates; or

the chief executive is satisfied granting the application would be inconsistent with a water plan.

The chief executive must publish, on a Queensland Government website, a notice (a public submissions notice) that—

states the application has been made; and

includes the following information—

the location of the proposed taking of, or interference with, water;

where copies of the application may be inspected;Example—a Queensland Government website

that written submissions may be made by any entity about the application;

a day, that is not earlier than 30 business days after the day the notice is published, by which submissions must be made;

the person to whom submissions must be made.

The chief executive may, by written notice, require the applicant to publish a copy of the public submissions notice for the period, and in the way, stated in the written notice.

Within 10 business days after the applicant publishes the copy of the public submissions notice under subsection (4), the applicant must give the chief executive evidence of the publication.

The application lapses if the applicant fails, without a reasonable excuse, to comply with—

the written notice mentioned in subsection (4); or

the requirement under subsection (5).