Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00795:schedule:1:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00795
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 2/11)
Character Range: 4044–7142

Council of Australian Governments' National Water Reform Framework and the Natural Heritage Trust Partnership Agreements.

  THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

  Part I ‑ Application and Interpretation

  Application

    1.1 This Agreement applies to that area of the Lake Eyre Basin (the Agreement Area) encompassing portions of Queensland and South Australia, as depicted in Schedule 1 of this Agreement, including within that area the following river systems and associated catchments, floodplains, overflow channels, lakes, wetlands and sub‑artesian waters dependent on surface flows:
         (a) the Cooper Creek system including the Thomson and Barcoo Rivers, and associated tributaries; and
         (b) the Diamantina River system, including the Georgina River, and including Warburton Creek in South Australia, and associated tributaries.

Definitions

    1.2 In this Agreement save where inconsistent with the context:

    "Ecosystem" means a community of organisms, interacting with one another, and the natural resources comprising the environment in which those organisms live and with which they also interact.
    "Lake Eyre Basin Agreement Area" means the area referred to in clause 1.1 to which the Agreement applies.
     "Management Plan" means a plan or other document of a State that has been adopted by the Ministerial Forum.
     "Ministerial Forum" means the group of Ministers of the Crown in right of the Commonwealth and the State parties constituted under Part V.
     "Natural resources" means water, soil, the atmosphere, plants, animals and micro‑organisms that maintain and form components of ecosystems.
     "Principles" means the guiding principles referred to in Part III.
     "Policy" means a document setting out a course or line of action developed or adopted and pursued by the Ministerial Forum for the purpose of implementing this Agreement.
     "Related natural resources" means natural resources the use or management of which affects or might affect, or is or might be affected by the quantity or quality of water in the water systems described in clause 1.1 of this Agreement, or the ecosystems of which such water is a component part.
     "Strategy" means a document setting out a course or line of action developed or adopted and pursued by the Ministerial Forum for the purpose of implementing a Policy.

Interpretation

    1.3 In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:
         (a) a reference to any law or legislation or legislative provision includes any statutory modification or re‑enactment of, or legislative provision substituted for, and any subordinate legislation issued under, that legislation or legislative provision;
         (b) a reference to a Recital, Clause or Schedule is to a recital, clause or schedule in this Agreement;
         (c) a reference to a person includes a corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, authority, trust, state or government;
         (d) the singular includes the plural and vice versa
         (e)  a reference to any gender includes the other gender;
         (f) a