Water Act 2000

This section applies to Mount Isa Mines Limited ACN 009 661 447 (the entity) to the extent a special agreement Act authorises the entity to take or interfere with water in relation to Rifle Creek Dam and Lake Moondarra.

The authority continues under the special agreement Act until the chief executive grants the entity the water allocation under the resource operations plan to replace part of the Lake Moondarra authority.

Subsection (2) applies despite section 1037A(3) and (4) and anything to the contrary in the special agreement Act that applies to the entity.

To remove any doubt, it is declared that nothing in this section affects the water licence, held by the entity, to take water from Rifle Creek.

In this section—Lake Moondarra authority means the authority for taking water from Lake Moondarra—

granted under the Order in Council published in the gazette on 14 August 1976 at page 1987; and

continued under section 1089.

resource operations plan means the resource operations plan that implements the Water Resource (Gulf) Plan 2007.special agreement Act see the Environmental Protection Act 1994, section 584.