New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE BELLINGER RIVER AREA UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2008 - REG 67

67 Management of local impacts

(1) This Division is made in accordance with section 21 (a) of the Act.

(2) The Minister may declare a defined area to be known as a local impact area in order to:

(a) protect water levels within a water source,

(b) protect water quality within a water source,

(c) protect high priority groundwater dependent ecosystems in Schedule 5 through the protection of water quality and/or water levels, or

(d) protect aquifer integrity.

(3) The declaration in subclause (2) will contain the rules that are to apply in the local impact area and those rules will apply pursuant to a mandatory condition on each access licence requiring compliance with rules.

(4) The Minister is to advise in writing each licence holder who becomes subject to local impact rules.

Note: The Minister may also, if satisfied that it is necessary to do so in the public interest, may make an order under section 323 of the Act, directing that for a specified period, the taking of water from a specified water source is totally prohibited.