Queensland Consolidated Acts

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 717

(1) The State may recover from a water authority the costs incurred by the State for the following—

(a) designing the works stated in the authority's establishment proposal as works the authority proposes to build;

(b) conducting site investigations for the works;

(c) publishing notice of the authority's proposed establishment under section 552.

(2) However, the State may recover the costs mentioned in subsection (1)(a) and (b) only if the establishment proposal for the authority states—

(a) the amount of the costs; and

(b) that the State may recover the costs from the authority.