Rural Adjustment Authority Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2002 (Qld)

Queensland Subordinate Legislation 2002 No. 16 Rural Adjustment Authority Act 1994 RURAL ADJUSTMENT AUTHORITY AMENDMENT REGULATION (No. 1) 2002 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Amendment of s 2 (Definitions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Amendment of s 3 (Authority’s functions to include certifying that farm business assessments comply with DSAP scheme—Act, s 8(2)(h)) . . . . . 2

s1 2 s4 Rural Adjustment Authority Amendment Regulation No. 16, 2002 (No. 1) 2002 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Rural Adjustment Authority Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2002 . 2 Regulation amended This regulation amends the Rural Adjustment Authority Regulation 2000. 3 Amendment of s 2 (Definitions) Section 2— insert — ‘ “rural irrigation water user” means a water entitlement holder charged, under the Rural Water Pricing Direction Notice (No. 1) 2000 , for the supply of rural irrigation water in the following water supply projects mentioned in the notice — (a) Burdekin Channel; (b) Burdekin River; (c) Burdekin (Other); (d) Mareeba Channel; (e) Mareeba River; (f) Proserpine. “SunWater” see the GovernmentOwnedCorporations(StateWaterProjects Corporatisation) Regulation 2000 , section 5. “water entitlement holder” means a holder of a water entitlement under the Water Act 2000 .’. 4 Amendment of s 3 (Authority’s functions to include certifying that farm business assessments comply with DSAP scheme—Act, s 8(2)(h)) (1) Section 3, heading— omit, insert — ‘ Other functions of Authority—Act, s 8(2)(h) ’.

s4 3 s4 Rural Adjustment Authority Amendment Regulation No. 16, 2002 (No. 1) 2002 (2) Section 3— insert — ‘ (2) Also, for section 8(2)(h) of the Act, the authority has the following functions— (a) to prepare criteria for deciding whether rural irrigation water users are experiencing financial hardship ( “hardship criteria” ); (b) to advise rural irrigation water users and their representatives about applying for assistance because of financial hardship ( “hardship applications” ); (c) to assess hardship applications and decide whether the applications satisfy the hardship criteria; (d) to notify SunWater about decisions made under paragraph (c); (e) if the authority decides an application satisfies the hardship criteria—to recommend to SunWater the repayment terms, interest rate or other matters required to assist the applicant through the financial hardship; (f) to keep a register of inquiries about hardship applications, and of hardship applications received by the authority, including information about decisions made under paragraph (c) and recommendations made under paragraph (e); (g) to make the register mentioned in paragraph (f) available for inspection by SunWater; (h) to perform functions incidental to a function under another paragraph of this subsection.’. ENDNOTES 1. Made by the Governor in Council on 7 February 2002. 2. Notified in the gazette on 8 February 2002. 3. Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4. The administering agency is the Department of Primary Industries. © State of Queensland 2002