Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move Greens amendment (15) on sheet 5629:

(15)  Schedule 2, page 305 (after line 16), after item 93, insert:

93A  Paragraph 110(1)(a)

Before “using”, insert “acquiring, holding or”.

This amendment relates to the section of the bill that deals with the application of state laws to the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder. The first part of that section talks about ‘any requirement of a law of a basin state that presents a person from using, on land that the person does not own, water available under a water access right’. To clarify and tighten up this provision, we seek to change ‘using’ to ‘ acquiring, holding or using’. We believe that tightens it up to ensure that the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder can acquire and hold on to the water. This amendment tightens up that section to ensure that the Commonwealth water holder can actually do what the act intends it to do.