New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE HUNTER REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCE 2003

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 January 2006
- Reg 432 of 2004

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of Plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Area and waters to which this Plan applies
   5.      Interpretation
   6.      Effect on licences, authorities and permits under the Water Act 1912
   7.      State Water Management Outcomes Plan
   8.      Management zones, flow reference sites, river reaches and reach gauges

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

   9.      Vision, objectives, strategies and performance indicators
   10.     Vision
   11.     Objectives
   12.     Strategies
   13.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   14.     Environmental water provisions
   15.     Planned environmental water
   16.     Planned environmental water
   17.     Adaptive environmental water

   PART 4 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   18.     Basic landholder rights
   19.     Domestic and stock rights
   20.     Native title rights

   PART 5 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   21.     Bulk access regime

   PART 6 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   22.     Requirements for water under access licences
   23.     Share component of domestic and stock access licences
   24.     Share component of major utility access licences
   25.     Share component of local water utility access licences
   26.     Share component of regulated river (high security) access licences
   27.     Share component of regulated river (general security) access licences
   28.     Share component of supplementary water access licences
   29.     Changes to total share component

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING OF ACCESS LICENCES

   30.     Access licence applications

   PART 8 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term extraction limit

   31.     Limit to the availability of water
   32.     Volume of the long-term extraction limit
   33.     Assessment of current long-term average annual extraction
   34.     Maintaining compliance with the long-term extraction limit

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   35.     Available Water Determinations
   36.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   37.     Available water determinations for major utility access licences
   38.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   39.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences and for regulated river (general security) access licences
   40.     Available water determinations for supplementary water access licences

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   41.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   42.     Water allocation accounts
   43.     Accrual of water allocations accounts
   44.     Volume taken under access licences
   45.     Accounting of assigned allocations and return flows
   46.     Carrying over of water allocation credits and water allocation account limits
   47.     Barnard Reserve account management

           Division 2 - Extraction conditions

   48.     General priority of extractions
   49.     Numerical specification of extraction components
   50.     Access to uncontrolled flows
   51.     Extraction under supplementary water access licences

   PART 10 - DEALINGS WITH ACCESS LICENCES

   52.     Access licence dealings
   53.     Rules relating to constraints within this water source
   54.     Rules for change of water source
   55.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   56.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   57.     Rules for water allocation assignment between water sources
   58.     Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   59.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   60.     Mandatory conditions on water supply works approvals

   PART 12 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

   61.     System operation rules
   62.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
   63.     Rates of change to releases from water storages
   64.     Dam operation during floods and spills
   65.     Airspace operation rules

   PART 13 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   66.     Monitoring

   PART 14 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   67.     Revision of the water source boundary and Plan area
   68.     Changes to the Management of the Barnard Reserve account
   69.     Increase in the management zone 1 limit in relation to dealings
   70.     Amendment relating to planned environmental water
   71.     Amendment of Plan relating to floodplain harvesting
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