New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 85

85 Keeping of water allocation accounts

(1) For each access licence, the Minister is to cause an account to be kept of:

(a) the water allocations that are acquired under section 71T or 71V in relation to the water allocation account for the licence or otherwise credited from time to time to the water allocation account for the licence, and

(b) the water allocations that are taken or assigned under section 71T or 71V or otherwise debited or withdrawn from time to time in relation to the water allocation account for the licence, and

(c) the water allocations that are recredited to the water allocation account for the licence from time to time under section 76.

(2) Water allocations are to be credited to the water allocation account for an access licence in accordance with any relevant available water determination.

(3) Despite subsection (2), an amount of water may be credited to the water allocation account for an access licence as a result of arrangements made with the Minister for the early release of water by Snowy Hydro Limited. However, the same amount of water as is so credited is to be debited subsequently in accordance with the directions of the Minister.

(4) The first amount of water to be credited to the water allocation account of an access licence granted part of the way through an accounting period is to bear the same proportion to the amount of available water that would be allocated to the licence if it had existed for the whole of the accounting period as the part of the accounting period remaining when the licence was granted bears to the whole of the accounting period.

(5) Water allocations in a water allocation account may be withdrawn by the Minister to the extent provided by the relevant management plan, as referred to in section 21 (c).

(6) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the form in which a water allocation account is to be kept under this section and the particulars that are to be recorded in such a water allocation account.