Water Act 2000

This section applies—

to development that is the construction of a new levee or the modification of an existing levee; and

for the purpose of minimising the adverse impacts levees could have on overland flow water, the catchment, landholders, communities and land planning and emergency procedures.

A regulation may prescribe—

assessment benchmarks for the Planning Act for the assessment of development, other than an assessment carried out by the chief executive of the department in which that Act is administered (the planning chief executive); or

for the Planning Act, the matters a referral agency under that Act, other than the planning chief executive—

must or may assess a development application against; or

must or may assess a development application having regard to.