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
1 Name
This is the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment (Water Management) Regulation 2014.
2 Commencement
This instrument commences on 18 December 2014.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under the Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Act 1988.
4 Schedules
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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.