Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:section:97:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 97 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 343712–345424

or part, obtained; and
 (b) provide for transitional arrangements in relation to contracts that have been entered into between an irrigation infrastructure operator and another person before water market rules are made or amended.
 (6) Water market rules must not prevent an irrigation infrastructure operator from:
 (a) imposing, or requiring the payment of, a regulated water charge; or
 (b) requiring the approval of a person who holds a legal or equitable interest in an irrigation right that a person has against the operator before allowing transformation arrangements in relation to that irrigation right.
 (7) Without limiting subsection (1), water market rules may provide that a particular provision of the rules is a civil penalty provision.
 (8) The civil penalty for a contravention of a provision specified under subsection (7) is 200 penalty units.
 (9) Without limiting subsection (1), water market rules may provide that a person who suffers loss or damage as a result of conduct, or an omission, of another person that contravenes the water market rules may recover the amount of the loss or damage by action against that other person or against any person involved in the contravention.
 (10) No claim, action or demand may be made, asserted or taken against an irrigation infrastructure operator for anything done by the operator solely for the purpose of complying with water market rules.
 (11) Before the Basin Plan first takes effect, this section applies in relation to any entitlement that is a perpetual or ongoing entitlement, by or under a law of a State or Territory, to exclusive access to a share of the Basin water resources as if the entitlement were a water access entitlement.