Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The chief executive may amend a resource operations plan.
(2) Subsection (3) applies if a resource operations plan will be inconsistent with a water resource plan for which it has effect because of a proposed amendment to the water resource plan of which the chief executive has become aware under section 39(2) or 49(7).
(3) The chief executive must amend the resource operations plan if it is inconsistent with the water resource plan, as proposed to be amended, so that the 2 plans are consistent.
(4) Sections 95 to 104 must be followed for preparing the amendment—
(a) as if a reference in the sections to preparing a draft plan were a reference to preparing the amendment; and
(b) with any other necessary changes.
(5) Without limiting subsection (1) or (3), the amendment may—
(a) change the plan area; or
(b) amalgamate the resource operations plan with another resource operations plan or part of another resource operations plan; or
(c) change the water infrastructure operating arrangements and other requirements of the plan; or
(d) improve the relationship between the resource operations plan and any system operating plan applying to the plan area, or a part of the plan area.
(6) However, if the amendment of a resource operations plan is not being made under subsection (3), section 99(b), (ba), (ca) and (d) does not apply to the preparation of the amendment if—
(a) the chief executive is satisfied that sufficient public notice of, and opportunity to make submissions on, the proposed amendment, will be available under section 100; or
(b) the amendment is of a type that the resource operations plan states may be made to the plan under this subsection.