Australian Capital Territory
Water Resources (Fees) Determination 2007 (No 1)
Disallowable Instrument DI2007— 192
made under the
Water Resources Act 2007, Section 107 - Determination of Fees

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

The Water Resources Act 2007 is an Act to provide for the management of the water resources of the Territory, and for related purposes.
Section 107 of the Act provides the Minister with the power to determine fees.  
The purpose of this determination is to set necessary and appropriate fees for services and their relevant payment requirements provided under the Act.  In particular, the fees are designed to recover costs, and in the case of the licence to take water abstraction fee set under section 30, it offsets both the costs incurred by the Territory in water management and represents a sustainable price for water in the long term.  
The fees set through this determination replace those that were previously determined under the repealed Water Resources Act 1998.  
Where applicable, the fees are set at the same level as those that existed under the repealed Act with wage price index applied except for the two water abstraction charge fees where no wage price index has been applied.

The fees take effect on 1 August 2007.

The determination under section 107 of the Act is a disallowable instrument.