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Water Act 2000
sec.738NProviding irrigation services not a monopoly business activity
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### sec.738N Providing irrigation services not a monopoly business activity
The carrying on by the irrigation entity for the declared channel scheme of the business activity of providing irrigation services in the area of the scheme is taken not to be a monopoly business activity for the purposes of the Queensland Competition Authority Act 1997 , part 3 .
However, subsection (1) does not affect the power of the Minister, or of the Governor in Council to make a regulation, to declare under the Queensland Competition Authority Act 1997 , part 3 that the carrying on by the irrigation entity of the business activity of providing irrigation services in the area of the scheme is a monopoly business activity.
s 738N ins 2017 No. 2 s 4
exp 1 July 2027 (see s 738ZJ)
AIA s 20A applies (see s 738ZK)
(sec.738N-ssec.1) The carrying on by the irrigation entity for the declared channel scheme of the business activity of providing irrigation services in the area of the scheme is taken not to be a monopoly business activity for the purposes of the Queensland Competition Authority Act 1997 , part 3 .
(sec.738N-ssec.2) However, subsection (1) does not affect the power of the Minister, or of the Governor in Council to make a regulation, to declare under the Queensland Competition Authority Act 1997 , part 3 that the carrying on by the irrigation entity of the business activity of providing irrigation services in the area of the scheme is a monopoly business activity.