Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment (Water Management) Regulation 2014 (Cth)

Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Amendment (Water Management) Regulation 2014

Select Legislative Instrument No. 183, 2014

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 27 November 2014

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Simon Birmingham

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment
for the Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development

Contents

1............ Name.................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................ 1

4............ Schedules............................................................................................ 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                            2

Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Regulations 1989              2

1Name

This is the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment (Water Management) Regulation 2014.

2Commencement

This instrument commences on 18 December 2014.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Act 1988.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Regulations 1989

1  After regulation 3B

Insert:

3C  Crown bound by Water Resources Act 2007 (ACT)

(1) For the purposes of section 27 of the Act, the Water Resources Act 2007 (ACT) binds the Crown in right of the Commonwealth.

            (2)  However, nothing in the Water Resources Act 2007 (ACT) makes the Crown liable to be prosecuted for an offence.