Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (Queensland) Act 2005 (Qld)

Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (Queensland) Act 2005

An Act to apply the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005 (Cwlth) as a law of this State and for related purposes

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (Queensland) Act 2005.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

3 Object of Act (1) The object of this Act is to adopt in this State a uniform Australian approach to the regulation of water efficiency labelling and standards. (2) For the purpose mentioned in subsection (1), this Act— (a) applies the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005 (Cwlth) as a law of this State; and (b) makes provision to help ensure that the Commonwealth Act and the applied law of this State are administered on a uniform basis by the Commonwealth as if they constituted a single law of the Commonwealth.

4 Act binds all persons (1) This Act binds all persons, including the State, and, so far as the legislative power of the Parliament permits, the Commonwealth and the other States. (2) Nothing in this Act renders the Commonwealth or a State liable to be prosecuted for an offence.

5 Definitions (1) In this Act— applied provisions means the Commonwealth water efficiency laws that apply as a law of this State because of section 6, including any modification under section 7. Commonwealth administrative laws means the following Acts and any regulations in force under those Acts— (a) the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024 (Cwlth), other than part 7; (b) the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cwlth); (c) the Ombudsman Act 1976 (Cwlth); (d) the Privacy Act 1988 (Cwlth). Commonwealth regulator means the WELS Regulator appointed under the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005 (Cwlth). Commonwealth water efficiency laws means— (a) the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005 (Cwlth); and (b) all regulations, guidelines, principles, standards and codes of practice in force under that Act. function includes duty. modifications includes additions, omissions and substitutions. (2) If an expression is defined in the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005 (Cwlth) and is also used in this Act, the expression as used in this Act has, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning as in that Act. (3) In this Act, a reference to a Commonwealth Act includes a reference to— (a) that Commonwealth Act, as amended and in force for the time being; and (b) an Act enacted in substitution for that Act and, if it is amended, as amended and in force for the time being.