Robert Simms (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move Australian Greens amendments (1) to (7) on sheet 7914:

(1) Schedule 1, item 26, page 11 (lines 4 to 6), omit the item, substitute:

26 Subsection 86AE(2)

  Omit "106(2)(b)", substitute "106(7)(b)".

(2) Schedule 1, item 27, page 12 (lines 27 to 34), omit all the words from and including "the objectives" to the end of paragraph 106(3)(c), substitute "the objectives mentioned in subsection (7); and".

(3) Schedule 1, item 27, page 12 (after line 34), at the end of subsection 106(3), add:

  (d) in any case—the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder reasonably believes, at the time the proceeds are used for an activity, that using the proceeds for the activity will improve the capacity of the Commonwealth environmental water holdings to be applied to meet the objectives mentioned in subsection (7).

(4) Schedule 1, item 27, page 12 (lines 35 to 37), omit the note.

(5) Schedule 1, item 27, page 13 (after line 24), at the end of section 106, add:

(7) For the purposes of paragraphs (3)(c) and (d), the objectives are the objectives of one or more of the following:

  (a) the environmental watering plan;

  (b) a plan specified in the regulations in relation to an area outside the Murray-Darling Basin;

(c) protecting or restoring the environmental assets of an area outside the Murray-Darling Basin in relation to which those regulations do not specify a plan.

Note: This subsection is modified in relation to water access rights acquired by the Commonwealth with amounts debited from the Water for the Environment Special Account (see subsection 86AE(2)).

(6) Schedule 1, item 28, page 13 (after line 35), after paragraph (ab), insert:

   (ac) if during the year the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder used the proceeds of a disposal of a water allocation for an environmental activity—how the activity has improved, or is expected to improve, the capacity of the Commonwealth environmental water holdings to be applied to meet the objectives mentioned in subsection 106(7);

(7) Schedule 1, item 29, page 14 (line 3), omit "and (ab)", substitute ", (ab) and (ac)".

In the interests of time, I will not seek to speak to the amendments.