Water Amendment (State Water Management Law) Regulations 2020

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 06 August 2020

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Keith Pitt

Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Water Regulations 2008

1  Name

  This instrument is the Water Amendment (State Water Management Law) Regulations 2020.

2  Commencement

 (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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

 (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.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Water Act 2007.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Water Regulations 2008

1  After regulation 1.05A

Insert:

1.05B  Definition of State water management law in subsection 4(1) of the Act—prescribed laws of Basin States

  For the purposes of the definition of State water management law in subsection 4(1) of the Act, the Landscape South Australia Act 2019 (SA) is prescribed.