WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GREATER METROPOLITAN REGION GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2011 - REG 53
General
WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GREATER METROPOLITAN REGION GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2011 - REG 53
General
53 General
(1) Access licences in these groundwater sources must have
mandatory conditions, where required, to give effect to the following:
(a) the
relevant water allocation account management rules specified in Division 1 of
Part 8 of this Plan,
(b) water must not be taken under an access licence
otherwise than in compliance with the conditions applying to the water supply
work approval for the water supply work through which water is to be taken,
(c) the holder of the access licence must notify the Minister, in writing,
immediately upon becoming aware of a breach of any condition of the access
licence,
(d) any other condition required to implement the provisions of this
Plan.
(2) Access licences in these groundwater sources, excluding access
licences that nominate only metered water supply works with a data logger,
must have mandatory conditions where required to give effect to the following:
(a) the holder of the access licence must keep a Logbook,
(b) the holder of
the access licence must record the following in the Logbook:
(i) each date and
period of time during which water was taken under the access licence,
(ii)
the volume of water taken on that date,
(iii) the water supply work approval
number of the water supply work used to take water on that date,
(iv) the
purpose or purposes for which the water was taken on that date,
(v) for
aquifer access licences with share components that specify one of these
groundwater sources excluding the Botany Sands Groundwater Source, the
Hawkesbury Alluvium Groundwater Source and the Maroota Tertiary Sands
Groundwater Source, the volume of water taken in a water year by comparison to
the volume of water permitted to be taken in that water year under clause 34
(2),
(vi) for domestic and stock access licences, local water utility access
licences and major utility access licences with share components that specify
these groundwater sources excluding the Botany Sands Groundwater Source, the
Hawkesbury Alluvium Groundwater Source and the Maroota Tertiary Sands
Groundwater Source, the volume of water taken in a water year by comparison to
the volume of water permitted to be taken in that water year under clauses 34
(5),
(vii) for access licences with share components that specify the Botany
Sands Groundwater Source, the Hawkesbury Alluvium Groundwater Source and the
Maroota Tertiary Sands Groundwater Source, the volume of water taken in a
water year by comparison to the volume of water permitted to be taken in that
water year under clause 34A (2),
(viii) any other information required to be
recorded in the Logbook under the rules of this Plan,
(c) the holder of the
access licence must produce the Logbook to the Minister for inspection, when
requested,
(d) the holder of the access licence must retain the information
required to be recorded in the Logbook for five years from the date to which
that information relates.
(3) The Minister may require the holder of an
access licence that nominates only a metered water supply work with a data
logger to keep a Logbook in accordance with any requirements set out in
subclause (2).
(4) An access licence for an approved EP&A Act development
must have mandatory conditions where required to give effect to:
(a) the
relevant access rules for the taking of water specified in Division 2 of Part
8 of this Plan, and
(b) to the rules for the use of water supply works
located within restricted distances specified in clause 44.
In this clause,
"approved EP&A Act development" means:
