Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) As soon as practicable after a water authority is established under section 548 or formed under section 690, the chief executive must publish a notice in the gazette stating—
(a) the number of directors comprising the authority's board; and
(b) whether the directors are to be elected by the authority's ratepayers or nominated and, if they are to be nominated, by whom they are to be nominated.
(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply if the regulation under section 548 merely remakes subordinate legislation under which the authority has been established.
(2) The directors must be elected or nominated in accordance with the procedures prescribed under a regulation.
(3) Subsection (1) has effect subject to sections 599 and 600.