New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER MANAGEMENT (GENERAL) REGULATION 2004 - REG 16

16 Water allocation accounts

(1) Water allocations are to be debited from an access licence’s water allocation account:

(a) except as provided by paragraph (b), whenever water is taken by means of any of the access licence’s nominated water supply works, or

(b) if the relevant water sharing plan so provides, whenever water is ordered in relation to any of the access licence’s nominated water supply works.

(2) If a water supply work is nominated in relation to two or more access licences, water allocations taken by means of, or ordered in relation to, the work are to be debited from the water allocation accounts for those access licences:

(a) to the extent to which the relevant water sharing provisions of a management plan establish priorities in that regard, in accordance with the priorities so established, and

(b) to the extent to which the relevant water sharing provisions of a management plan do not establish priorities in that regard:

(i) subject to subparagraph (ii), as nominated by the holder of the access licences concerned or, if the access licences are held by different people, as nominated jointly by the holders, or

(ii) if no such nomination is made or if such a nomination is incapable of being implemented, as determined by the Minister.

(3) Water allocations that arise during one accounting year may be carried over to the following accounting year, but only to the extent to which the relevant water management plan so provides.

(4) Subclause (3) is not limited or otherwise affected by any order in force under section 60 (2) of the Act.

(5) For the purposes of subclause (3), "accounting year" means the period of 12 months commencing on 1 July of any year and ending on 30 June of the following year.