Ground Water (Qualco-Sunlands) Control Act 2000

The Trust has all powers necessary for or incidental to the construction, maintenance, purchase and operation of the Scheme infrastructure in accordance with this Act.

Without limiting subsection (1), the Trust may—

enter or occupy any land or authorise any other person to enter or occupy any land if, in the Trust's opinion, it is necessary or desirable for the Trust or other person to do so for the purpose of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining or operating the Scheme infrastructure or carrying out any other function or exercising any other power of the Trust under this

drill wells;

lay pipes above or below ground;

construct pumping stations and install and operate pumps and other equipment;

construct or erect embankments, roads, buildings, structures or any other works;

construct electricity transmission lines;

excavate trenches;

inspect, clean, maintain, repair, alter, renew or replace any well, pipe, pumping station or other component forming part of the Scheme infrastructure;

clear any well, pipe, pumping station, or other component forming

inspect, examine or survey land in connection with the planning, design or construction of the Scheme infrastructure and for that purpose the

fix posts, stakes or other markers on the land;

dig trenches or sink test holes on the land to determine the nature of the top soil and underlying strata;

remove samples of any material from the land for analysis;

with the written approval of the Minister, purchase, sell or deal in any other manner with salinity credits recognised under the Murray-Darling

with the written approval of the Minister, transfer, mortgage, lease or otherwise deal with the Scheme infrastructure and the other property of the Trust;

with the written approval of the Treasurer, borrow money or obtain any other form of financial accommodation.

A person entering land under this section must comply with the requirements of section 71.

The written approval of the Minister under subsection (2)(l) may be to a transaction identified in the approval or may be to unidentified future transactions of a class identified in the approval.