Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (North Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority) Rules 2019 (Cth)

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (North Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority) Rules 2019

I, Mathias Cormann, Minister for Finance and the Public Service, make the following rules.

Dated 25 March 2019

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance and the Public Service

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (North Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority) Rules 2019.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	28 March 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014

1

After clause 15A of Schedule 1

Insert:

15BNorth Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority

1. (1)

   For the purposes of the finance law:

   1. (a)

      the following group of persons is a listed entity:

      1. (i)

         the person occupying, or performing the duties of, the office known as the Chief Executive Officer of the North Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority;

      2. (ii)

         persons engaged under the Public Service Act 1999 to assist the Chief Executive Officer; and

   2. (b)

      the listed entity is to be known as the North Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority; and

   3. (c)

      the Chief Executive Officer is the accountable authority of the listed entity; and

   4. (d)

      the persons referred to in paragraph (a) are officials of the listed entity; and

   5. (e)

      the purposes of the listed entity include the following:

      1. (i)

         to provide strategic planning and coordination of Commonwealth resources to implement the Hughenden Irrigation Scheme project and the Hells Gates Dam Scheme (including Big Rocks Weir) project;

      2. (ii)

         to coordinate information sharing among relevant regulatory authorities necessary to implement the Hughenden Irrigation Scheme project and the Hells Gates Dam Scheme (including Big Rocks Weir) project;

      3. (iii)

         to provide advice to the Minister on the progress of the Hughenden Irrigation Scheme project and the Hells Gates Dam Scheme (including Big Rocks Weir) project;

      4. (iv)

         to undertake other relevant tasks as the Minister may require from time to time.

2. (2)

   This clause is repealed at the end of 30 June 2024.