Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:section:4:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 5/13)
Character Range: 42494–45476

(a) key environmental assets of the water resource; or
 (b) key ecosystem functions of the water resource; or
 (c) the productive base of the water resource; or
 (d) key environmental outcomes for the water resource.
environmental outcomes includes:
 (a) ecosystem function; and
 (b) biodiversity; and
 (c) water quality; and
 (d) water resource health.
Note 1: Paragraph (a) would cover, for example, maintaining ecosystem function by the periodic flooding of floodplain wetlands.
Note 2: Paragraph (d) would cover, for example, mitigating pollution and limiting noxious algal blooms.
environmental water means:
 (a) held environmental water; or
 (b) planned environmental water.
Environmental Water Holdings Special Account means the account established by section 111.
environmental watering means the delivery or use of environmental water to achieve environmental outcomes.
environmental watering schedule means an agreement:
 (a) that is an agreement to coordinate the use of environmental water to maximise the benefits of environmental watering across the Murray‑Darling Basin, a specified part of the Murray‑Darling Basin or a specified area outside the Murray‑Darling Basin; and
 (b) to which some or all of the following are parties:
 (i) holders of held environmental water (including the Commonwealth);
 (ii) owners of environmental assets;
 (iii) managers of planned environmental water; and
 (c) if the agreement relates to held environmental water in the Murray‑Darling Basin—to which the Authority is a party.
evidential burden, in relation to a matter, means the burden of adducing or pointing to evidence that suggests a reasonable possibility that the matter exists or does not exist.
evidential material means any of the following:
 (a) a thing with respect to which a designated compliance provision has been contravened or is suspected, on reasonable grounds, to have been contravened;
 (b) a thing that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting will afford evidence as to the contravention of a designated compliance provision;
 (c) a thing that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting is intended to be used for the purpose of contravening a designated compliance provision.
executive officer of a body corporate means a person (by whatever name called and whether or not a director of the body) who is concerned in, or takes part in, the management of the body.
field relevant to the Authority's functions has a meaning affected by subsection 178(3).
First Ministers' Council means a body (however described) that consists only of, or that includes, the following:
 (a) the Prime Minister;
 (b) the Premiers of each State;
 (c) the Chief Ministers of the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory.
former MDB Agreement has the meaning given by section 239A.
former Murray‑Darling Basin Ministerial Council has the meaning given by section 239A.
ground water means:
 (a) water occurring naturally below ground level (whether in an aquifer or