Water trading service standards
The below tables report on Queensland’s performance against service standards for processing temporary and permanent water trades. These service standards are set by Council of Australian Governments (CoAG) requirements. For reports on processing times for supplemented seasonal water assignments, please refer to SunWater’s website.
Processing times for Seasonal Water assignments—temporary trade*
Seasonal water assignment processing times From 01-July-2009 to 31-Oct-2009 |
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|---|---|---|---|
SWA Processing Times |
Number of |
Performance |
Intended |
Inter-state SWA’s - % of SWA’s |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Intra-state SWA’s - % of SWA’s |
47 | 87% | 90% |
Table 1 shows the percentage of unsupplemented seasonal water assignment (SWA) applications processed by DERM within the intended time frame.
*National Water Initiative terminology equivalent is ‘allocation’ trade.
Processing times for permanent Water Allocations trade**
Permanent trade registration processing times from 1-July-2009 to 31-Oct-2009 |
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|---|---|---|---|
Permanent trade |
Number of |
Performance |
Intended |
Registration of |
128 | 98% | 90% |
Table 2 shows permanent water trades to be registered on the Water Allocations Register (WAR) by the Titles Registration Business Unit within the intended time frame
**National Water Initiative terminology equivalent is ‘water access entitlement’ trade
Note:
- The timeframe for the service standard commences on receipt of the application forms and associated fee.
- The service standard is a measure of business days only.
- An application finalised on the same day it is received is taken as being finalised in one day.
- Recorded processing times excludes any time the application is returned to the applicant for further information or to correct an error. Only the time spent by DERM processing the trade is recorded.
- Performance against the service standard is reported as a cumulative monthly figure.
Seasonal water assignment’s
- This includes the time taken to approve or refuse applications which were finalised during the period indicated.
Permanent trade
Permanent trade refers to the transfer of holder. This means that:
- It includes the recording of a transfer of water with or without land.
- It does not include leases.
- It does not include other water dealings, such as location changes, subdivisions or amalgamations.
Last updated: 06 November 2009