New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE BELLINGER RIVER AREA UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2008 - REG 55

55 Volume taken under access licences

Note: Section 341 of the Act makes it unlawful to take a volume of water under an access licence that exceeds the volume of water allocation, which is credited to the access licence at the time of water extraction.

(1) The water allocation taken under an access licence in these water sources shall be the volume of water extracted by the approved water supply works nominated by the access licence, except where subclause (2) applies.

(2) If water that, pursuant to an access licence, is committed as adaptive environmental water to be left in a river for environmental purposes, then the water allocation taken under that access licence shall be assumed to be 100% of the available water determination made in Division 2 Part 10 of this Plan.