Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WATER PLAN (BARRON) 2002 - REG 56

56 Criteria for deciding nominal entitlement

(1) In deciding the nominal entitlement for an amended water licence, the chief executive must have regard to the following matters—

(a) the previous nominal entitlement of the water licence;

(b) the extent to which the potential productive capacity of the licence holder’s proposed enterprise is dependent on groundwater;

(c) the area proposed to be irrigated under the amended licence for the purposes of the licence holder’s proposed enterprise;

(d) the efficiency of the use of groundwater in conducting the licence holder’s proposed enterprise;

(e) the local availability of groundwater;

(f) the effect that amending the nominal entitlement of the licence under this division will have on the achievement of the social, economic and ecological outcomes under part 3 ;

(g) any submission about this division of the proposed amending plan that is made before the commencement by the licence holder under section 49 of the Act as applied by section 56 of the Act .

(2) Subsection (1) does not limit the matters the chief executive may consider for deciding the nominal entitlement.

(3) In this section—

"proposed amending plan" means the proposed amending water resource plan, prepared by the Minister under chapter 2 , part 3 , division 2 , subdivision 5 of the Act , to amend this plan on the commencement.