New South Wales Consolidated Regulations New South Wales Consolidated RegulationsAll local water utility access licences in this surface water source shall have mandatory conditions to give effect to the following:
(a) Water may only be taken in accordance with a flow class determined by the Minister, at a rate not exceeding that specified for the flow class on the access licence extraction component,
(b) the total amount of water extracted from Zone 2 of this surface water source under the subclause (a) shall be the minimum amount necessary and shall not exceed 1.5 ML/day,
(c) water may only be taken for the purposes of supplying water for:(i) the exercise of a water supply function of the local water utility, and/or(ii) other such purpose provided for under the Act,
(d) notwithstanding subclause (a), holders of local water utility surface water access licences in Zone 2 issued at the start of this Plan, may continue to access the very low flows for the purpose specified in subclause (c) (i), if there is visible flow in the river in the vicinity of the work,
(e) notwithstanding subclauses (a) and (d), water may be taken without any restrictions in rate from an in-river dam while the dam is passing flows up to the equivalent of A class flows at the dam site, or when there is zero inflow.