Notice of works and water use
36 Notice of works and water use
This section applies to works for taking or interfering with water if the taking or interfering with the water is authorised other than under a water entitlement.
The chief executive may, by publishing a notice (the chief executive’s notice), require the owner of land on which the works are, or are to be, constructed to give the chief executive notice (the owner’s notice) of the works and the water use or, for works to be constructed, proposed water use, relating to the works, by the date stated in the notice.
The chief executive’s notice—
may require the owner’s notice to be in the approved form; and
must state the matters prescribed by regulation, including the proposed consultation arrangements for the notice.
A person to whom the chief executive’s notice applies must comply with the notice.Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by regulation
). Made under this Act:
- Water Plan (Baffle Creek Basin) 2010 · Regulation
- Water Plan (Barron) 2023 · Regulation
- Water Plan (Border Rivers and Moonie) 2019 · Regulation
21 more instruments made under this Act are listed on the Act’s overview.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandum
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