WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GREATER METROPOLITAN REGION GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2011 - REG 12 Bulk access regime

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GREATER METROPOLITAN REGION GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2011 - REG 12

12 Bulk access regime

(1) This Plan establishes a bulk access regime for the extraction of water under access licences in these groundwater sources, having regard to:

(a) the environmental water rules established in Part 4 of this Plan,

(b) the requirements for water for basic landholder rights identified in Division 2 of Part 5 of this Plan,

(c) the requirements for water for extraction under access licences identified in Division 3 of Part 5 of this Plan, and

(d) the access licence dealing rules established in Part 10 of this Plan.

(2) The bulk access regime established in this Plan for these groundwater sources:

(a) recognises and is consistent with the limits to the availability of water set in relation to these groundwater sources contained in Division 1 of Part 6 of this Plan,

(b) establishes rules according to which access licences are to be granted and managed contained in Parts 7 and 8 of this Plan, and available water determinations to be made contained in Division 2 of Part 6 of this Plan,

(c) recognises the effect of climatic variability on the availability of water as described in clause 13,

(d) establishes rules with respect to the priorities according to which water allocations are to be adjusted as a consequence of any reductions in the availability of water due to an increase in average annual extraction above the long-term average annual extraction limit, contained in Division 1 of Part 6 of this Plan,

(e) contains provisions with respect to the conditions that must be imposed as mandatory conditions on access licences, contained in Division 2 of Part 11 of this Plan, and

(f) recognises and is consistent with the water management principles contained in section 5 of the Act.