Water Management (Safety of Dams) Amendment Regulations 2006

Water Management (Safety of Dams) Amendment Regulations 2006

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Water Management Act 1999 .

17 July 2006

Peter G. Underwood

Lieutenant-Governor

By His Excellency's Command,

D. E. Llewellyn

Minister for Primary Industries and Water

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Water Management (Safety of Dams) Amendment Regulations 2006 .

2.   Commencement

These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3.   Principal Regulations

In these regulations, the Water Management (Safety of Dams) Regulations 2003 are referred to as the Principal Regulations.

4.    Regulation 7 amended (Required competency standards)

Regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations is amended as follows:

(a) by omitting item 5 from the table in subregulation (2)(d) and substituting the following:

5. Intermediate surveillance inspections and reports	Any person	Owner	Class B	Class B	Class B	Class B	Class B
5A. Compre-hensive surveillance inspections and reports	Any person	Owner	Class B	Class B	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team

(b) by omitting paragraph (b) from subregulation (3) ;

(c) by omitting item 5 from the table in subregulation (3)(d) and substituting the following:

5. Intermediate surveillance inspections and reports	Any person	Class B	Class B	Class B	Class B	Class B	Class B
5A. Compre-hensive surveillance inspections and reports	Any person	Class B	Class B	Class B	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team

(d) by omitting subregulation (4) and substituting the following subregulation:

(4)  Subject to regulation 8 , where an activity listed in Column 1 of the following table is required to be undertaken in respect of a dam which is of a hazard category specified in the table and which is more than 25 metres high, that activity is to be undertaken by –

(a) a person or persons having the level of competence specified in the table in respect of that activity; or

(b) an expert team, if so specified.

Activity	ANCOLD Hazard Category
	Very Low	Low	Signi-ficant	High C	High B	High A	Extr-eme
1. Super-vision of construction	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team
2. Pre-construction investigation, design and report	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team
3. Design plans and specifica-tions	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team
4. WAE report	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team
5. Intermediate surveillance inspections and reports	Class B	Class B	Class B	Class B	Class A	Class A	Class A
6. Compre-hensive surveillance inspections and reports	Class B	Class B	Class B	Class A	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team
7. Safety reviews	Class B	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team
8. Design and supervision of decommis-sioning	Class B	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team	Expert team

5.    Regulation 13 amended (Fees, allowances and compensation)

Regulation 13 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulation (1) and substituting the following subregulation:

(1)  The fee payable to the Crown by the owner of a dam or proposed dam for assessing a design, construction, maintenance, surveillance or decommissioning report is 115 fee units, plus 77 fee units for each hour or part of an hour spent processing the report, excluding the first hour.

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 26 July 2006

These regulations are administered in the Department of Primary Industries and Water.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

These regulations amend the Water Management (Safety of Dams) Regulations 2003  –

(a) in respect of the competency standards required of people undertaking certain activities specified in those regulations to ensure consistency with the relevant ANCOLD guidelines; and

(b) by increasing the fee payable for the assessment of certain reports.