Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations under this Act.
(2) A regulation may—
(a) fix fees and charges payable under this Act including, for example, for the taking and supplying of water under this Act and for drainage and resource management services; and
(b) create offences against the regulation and fix a maximum penalty of a fine of 20 penalty units for an offence against the regulation; and
(ca) prescribe organisations approved by the chief executive to provide accredited farm management system programs; and
(cb) prescribe accredited farm management system programs; and
(d) state, in relation to meters, the following—
(i) when a meter must be installed to measure the volume of water taken, the rate at which it is taken and the time it is taken;
(ii) who may install the meter;
(iii) who must pay, and the arrangements for payment, for the installation, maintenance and reading of the meter;
(iv) the minimum standards for the design, construction, installation and maintenance of meters; and
(e) state the minimum standards for the construction and decommissioning of works relating to aquifers; and
(ga) state a process for—
(i) converting authorities to take or interfere with water, identified as existing water supply responsibilities in an interim resource operations licence, to interim water allocations; and
(ii) granting interim water allocations in relation to authorities to which the Three Moon Creek Irrigation Project Agreement for the Monto/Mulgildie Salinity Area, endorsed in 1997 by the Minister administering the repealed Act, applies; and
(gb) state a process for granting or otherwise dealing with unallocated water in the plan area for a water resource plan or resource operations plan or a wild river area; and
(gc) state a process for dealing with an application under section 129, 129A or 130 for a change to a water allocation; and
(h) declare, for the Sustainable Planning Act 2009—
(i) an area to be a drainage and embankment area; and
(ii) the works within the area that are to be assessable or self-assessable development; and
(i) state a code against which development applications under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 may be assessed by the chief executive as an assessment manager or concurrence agency under that Act; and
(j) state a code for carrying out self-assessable development prescribed under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009, section 232(1) that is operational work that allows taking or interfering with water; and
(k) state the information to be contained in, the returns and the times for giving returns to the chief executive by a person about State quarry material or other material removed by the person from a watercourse or lake; and
(l) make provision about any matter necessary or convenient to give effect to the following—
(i) a requirement about water efficiency management plans under chapter 2A, part 5, division 3;
(ii) a commission water restriction under chapter 2A, part 6.