Catchment Water Management Regulations 1995 (SA)

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

CATCHMENT WATER MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS 1995

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS

1.           Citation

2.           Commencement

3.           Interpretation

4.           Information to be included in plan

5.           Fee on sale of copies of plan, etc.

6.           Interest payable by councils

7.           Information to be included in annual reports

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CATCHMENT WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 1995

Catchment Water Management Regulations 1995

being

No. 150 of 1995: Gaz. 29 June 1995, p. 31681

1 Came into operation 29 June 1995: reg. 2.

Citation

1. These regulations may be cited as the Catchment Water Management Regulations 1995.

Commencement

2. These regulations will come into operation on the day on which they are made.

Interpretation

3. In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

"Act" means the Catchment Water Management Act 1995;

"prime bank rate" for a particular financial year means the corporate loan reference rate applied by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for corporate lending on the first trading day of the Bank in that financial year.

Information to be included in plan

4. A catchment water management plan must include—

(a)

an assessment by the board of the effect of implementation of the plan on the ecosystems of the watercourses, channels and lakes to which the plan relates; and

(b)

if the plan proposes the diversion of catchment water to an underground aquifer—an assessment by the board of—

(i)	the capacity of the aquifer to accept the water to be diverted to it; and
(ii)	the effect of diverting the water on the quality of water in the aquifer and in any other aquifer to which the water may escape; and
(iii)	the effect of diverting the water on the quality of surrounding land and its soil.

Fee on sale of copies of plan, etc.

5. The Minister may fix the maximum fee that a board may charge for sale of copies of its catchment water management plan or of copies of a draft management plan or of copies of draft or approved amendments to a management plan.

Interest payable by councils

6. Interest accrues under section 51(1) of the Act from the date on which the instalment was payable under that section at the prime bank rate for the financial year in which the instalment was payable.

Information to be included in annual reports

7. The annual report prepared by a board under section 54 of the Act must include the

following information:

(a)	the rate of remuneration of each employee of the board for the financial year to which the report relates and where an employee receives a package including a non-monetary component, the total value of the package and the value of each of the monetary and non-monetary components; and
(b)	the amount of superannuation contributions by the board in the relevant financial year in respect of each employee; and
(c)	the number of meetings (if any) that each member of the board has failed to attend during the relevant year and the reason given by the member for the failure.