Water Plan (Condamine and Balonne) 2019

This section applies if each relevant water licence has been amended in the way mentioned in section 59(1).

For section 116(1) of the Act, the chief executive must decide to grant a water licence to CEWH to take underground water from the Upper Condamine Alluvium (Central Condamine Alluvium) underground water unit if—

CEWH does not hold a water licence to take underground water from the Upper Condamine Alluvium (Central Condamine Alluvium) underground water unit in an underground water zone in the Central Condamine Alluvium underground water sub-area; and

a water entitlement notice for this plan provides for the granting of the water licence.

Note—

See also section 116(2) of the Act for when the chief executive may grant a water licence without the need for an application to be made under section 107 of the Act.

If CEWH holds a water licence to take underground water from the Upper Condamine Alluvium (Central Condamine Alluvium) underground water unit in an underground water zone in the Central Condamine Alluvium underground water sub-area, a water entitlement notice, under section 70(1)(e) of the Act, may implement this plan by providing for the amendment of the water licence.

Note—

See section 133(2) of the Act for the actions the chief executive must take if a water licence is inconsistent with a water plan.

The chief executive must ensure—

the nominal entitlement for a water licence granted under subsection (2) is proportional to the reduction volume for the trading zone to which the water licence relates; and

the nominal entitlement for a water licence amended under subsection (3) is equal to the sum of—

the reduction volume for the trading zone to which the water licence relates; and

the volume of nominal entitlements held by CEWH for the trading zone to which the water licence relates before the water licence is amended; and

the purpose for taking water under a water licence granted under subsection (2) or amended under subsection (3) is ‘productive base’.

In this section—

reduction volume, for the trading zone to which a water licence relates, means the volume calculated by subtracting the total replacement volume from the total original volume.

total original volume means the total volume of nominal entitlements for all relevant water licences before the licences were amended in the way mentioned in section 59(1).

total replacement volume means the total volume of the nominal entitlements for all relevant water licences after the licences were amended in the way mentioned in section 59(1).