Water Management (Safety of Dams) Regulations 2015 (Tas)

Water Management (Safety of Dams) Regulations 2015

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 .

15 December 2015

C. WARNER

Governor

By Her Excellency's Command,

JEREMY ROCKLIFF

Minister for Primary Industries and Water

PART 1 - Preliminary

1. Short title These regulations may be cited as the Water Management (Safety of Dams) Regulations 2015 .

2. Commencement These regulations take effect on the day on which the Water Management Amendment (Dam Works) Act 2015 commences.

3. Interpretation (1) In these regulations – Act means the Water Management Act 1999 ; ANCOLD means the Australian National Committee on Large Dams (ANCOLD) Inc.(ABN: 52 627 050 014); ANCOLD guidelines means guidelines issued by ANCOLD; authorised safety reviewer means a person declared under regulation 8 to be an authorised safety reviewer for the purposes of these regulations; Class 1 competence see regulation 4 ; Class 2 competence see regulation 5 ; Class 3 competence see regulation 6 ; Engineers Australia means The Institution of Engineers Australia - National Office (ABN 63 020 415 510); expert team, in respect of an activity, means a team of persons which meets the requirements referred to in regulation 7 for that activity; relevant overseas engineering qualification, in relation to a person, means a qualification held by the person that is – (a) awarded by an overseas tertiary-level institution at the successful completion of a course, or program, requiring the equivalent of at least 4 years of full-time study; and (b) recognised by Engineers Australia as equivalent to a Bachelor of Engineering awarded by an Australian university; relevant overseas engineering or science qualification, in relation to a person, means a qualification held by the person that is – (a) awarded by an overseas tertiary-level institution at the successful completion of a course, or program, requiring the equivalent of at least 4 years of full-time study; and (b) recognised by Engineers Australia as equivalent to a Bachelor of Engineering, or a Bachelor of Science, awarded by an Australian university; specialist aspect of technology means – (a) electrical engineering; or (b) environmental engineering; or (c) geotechnical engineering; or (d) hydrological engineering; or (e) mechanical engineering; or (f) another field of engineering; tailings dam means a structure or embankment that is built to manage water associated with tailings storage, or to retain tailings, and includes the contents of the structure or embankment; top of the dam means the uppermost part of the dam excluding any settlement camber, or structures such as parapets and guard-rails, that are not part of the main water-retaining structure; WAE report means a report containing details of – (a) actual site conditions and features encountered during construction of the dam and the works associated with the construction of the dam; and (b) construction procedures used in the construction of the dam and the construction of the works associated with the construction of the dam; and (c) details, including drawings, of the dam as constructed and the works, associated with the construction of the dam, as constructed. (2) Unless the contrary intention appears, an expression used in these regulations has the same meaning as it has in Part 8A of the Act. (3) For the purposes of these regulations, a dam, or tailings dam, is of a consequence category specified in a table to these regulations if the dam is, under the ANCOLD guidelines entitled Guidelines on the Consequence Categories for Dams (October 2012), as amended or substituted from time to time, within the consequence category of the same name. (4) For the purposes of these regulations, the height of a dam is the greater of the following: (a) the height from the natural bed of the stream at the downstream edge of the dam wall to the top of the dam; (b) the height from the lowest elevation of the outside limit of the dam to the top of the dam.