New South Wales Consolidated Regulations New South Wales Consolidated RegulationsAll unregulated river and aquifer (Aboriginal cultural) access licences in these water sources shall have mandatory conditions to give effect to the following:
(a) water shall only be taken by Aboriginal persons or communities for personal, domestic and communal purposes including the purposes of drinking, food preparation, washing, manufacturing traditional artefacts, watering domestic gardens, cultural teaching, hunting, fishing, and gathering, and for recreational, cultural and ceremonial purposes.
(b) water may only be taken in this surface water source 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, unless otherwise authorised by an approved,
(c) notwithstanding subclause (b), 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, and
(d) the conditions in subclauses (b) and (c) are not to be imposed if the extraction component of the access licence specifies that water may only be taken from a runoff harvesting dam.