New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE BELLINGER RIVER AREA UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2008 - REG 56

56 Limits to the volumes that may be taken under access licences

(1) The maximum volume that may be taken under or assigned from an access licence in these water sources at any time may not exceed the volume in the water allocation account.

(2) The maximum volume that may be taken under a domestic and stock, local water utility, unregulated river high flow, unregulated river and aquifer access licences in these water sources in any 3 consecutive water years may not exceed a volume equal to:

(a) the sum of water allocations accrued under the licence from available water determinations in those years,

(b) plus any water allocations assigned from another access licence under section 71T of the Act, in those years,

(c) plus any water allocations recredited in accordance with section 76 of the Act, in those years, and

(d) minus any water allocations assigned to another access licence under section 71T of the Act, in those years.

(3) Notwithstanding subclause (2), the maximum volume that may be taken under a domestic and stock, local water utility, unregulated river high flow, unregulated river and aquifer access licences in these water sources in the first 3 water years of this Plan may not exceed a volume equal to:

(a) 3 times the share component for access licences with share components expressed as ML per year or 3 ML multiplied by the number of unit shares for access licence with share components expressed as a number of unit shares,

(b) plus any water allocations assigned from another access licence under section 71T of the Act, in those years,

(c) plus any water allocations recredited in accordance with section 76 of the Act, in those years, and

(d) minus any water allocations assigned to another access licence under section 71T of the Act, in those years.