New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE KARUAH RIVER WATER SOURCE 2003 - REG 32

32 Rules for granting access licences

(1) This Part is made in accordance with sections 20 (2) (b) and 63 of the Act, having regard to the limits to water availability in this water source and the need to protect the ecological health of the river.

(2) Access licences may be granted in this water source subject to any embargo on the making of applications for access licences made under Chapter 3 Part 2 Division 7 of the Act.

(3) The Minister should declare an embargo on the making of applications for access licences in this water source, other than access licences of the following kinds:

(a) local water utility access licences,

Note: Pursuant to sections 66 (3) and 66 (4) of the Act, the Minister may also vary a local water utility’s share component at 5 year intervals, or on application of the local water utility where there is a rapid growth in population.

(b) specific purpose access licences for which applications are provided for under the regulations in accordance with section 61 (1) (a) of the Act, or

(c) Unregulated river (Aboriginal cultural) access licences up to 10 ML/yr per application, or

(d) unregulated river (research) access licences provided the total share components assigned to all licences in this category does not exceed 10 ML/yr.

(4) In applying for a new access licence, the applicant must establish the purpose and circumstance relating to that access licence, and that the share and extraction component sought will be the minimum required to meet that purpose and circumstance.

(5) Subclause (4) does not apply to an application for a new access licence arising from:

(a) section 61 (1) (c), of the Act, where the right has been acquired by auction, tender or other open market process, or

(b) an access licence dealing.

(6) Any individual daily extraction limit (hereafter "IDEL") granted in accordance with this clause cannot exceed the IDEL initially assigned to an equivalent share component for that category of access licence, as specified by clause 48.

(7) Runoff harvesting access licences may have the share component expressed either as a volume in ML/yr or in terms of the amount of water that can be extracted from time to time from specified works.