New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 8C

8C Adaptive environmental water through system improvements

(1) If the relevant management plan so provides, the Minister may grant an access licence of a category or subcategory determined by the Minister to the Minister, a catchment management authority or other public body, without the need for an application to be made for the licence in accordance with Part 2 of Chapter 3, so long as:

(a) works or other actions result in water savings in the system being made in the water source in respect of which the licence is granted, and

(b) the share component of the licence is equivalent to the value of water savings in the system made, and

(c) an adaptive environmental water condition is imposed on the licence.

(2) In this section, "system" means that part of a water source to which a management plan applies that is not identified by the plan for commitments to basic landholder rights and for sharing and extraction under any other rights.