Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsThe authority's functions are—
(a) to develop criteria, and, at the request of the Ministers or on its own initiative, to revise the criteria or give information or advice to the Ministers about the criteria, to be used by the Ministers for deciding whether to declare the following—
(i) a government business activity or non-government business activity to be a monopoly business activity;
(ii) a candidate water supply activity to be a monopoly water supply activity; and
(aa) to make recommendations to the Ministers for the revocation of declarations of monopoly business activities made by the Ministers; and
(b) to conduct investigations and report to the Ministers about pricing practices relating to monopoly business activities; and
(ba) to conduct price monitoring investigations in relation to monopoly business activities and report the results of the investigations to the Ministers; and
(c) to receive, investigate, and report to the Ministers on, complaints against government agencies carrying on significant business activities otherwise than in accordance with the principle of competitive neutrality; and
(d) to grant accreditation to government agencies carrying on significant business activities in accordance with the principle of competitive neutrality; and
(e) if directed by the Ministers—under the direction, to investigate, and report to the Ministers on, any matter relevant to the implementation of competition policy; and
(f) to make recommendations to the Ministers for the making or revocation of declarations of services under part 5; and
(fa) to mediate to resolve access disputes; and
(fb) if asked by the parties to access agreements—to mediate to resolve disputes under the agreements; and
(g) to conduct arbitration hearings for resolving access disputes; and
(ga) if asked by the parties to access agreements—to arbitrate to resolve disputes under the agreements; and
(gb) to conduct arbitration hearings about applications for arbitration under the Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008, section 524(2); and
(h) to approve undertakings for services; and
(ha) to monitor compliance with approved access undertakings; and
(hb) to monitor compliance with water pricing determinations; and
(i) at the request of the Ministers, or on its own initiative—to give information or advice to the Ministers about—
(i) access codes or proposed access codes, or the contents of access codes or proposed access codes; or
(ii) water pricing determination codes or proposed water pricing determination codes, or the contents of water pricing determination codes or proposed water pricing determination codes; and
(j) to make industry codes, other than an initial industry code, under the Electricity Act 1994 and the Gas Supply Act 2003; and
(k) to monitor compliance with industry codes under the Electricity Act 1994 and the Gas Supply Act 2003; and
(ka) to make credit support guidelines under the Electricity Act 1994; and
(l) to review particular decisions under the Electricity Act 1994; and
(la) if directed by the Ministers—to monitor compliance by a government agency, or conduct arbitration hearings for resolving disputes about a government agency's compliance, with a code of conduct the agency has agreed to abide by; and
(m) to perform other functions given to the authority under an Act, including, for example—
(i) performing a function or exercising a power delegated to it under an Act; or
(ii) doing an act it is directed to do under an Act; and
(n) to perform a function incidental to a function mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (m).