New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE LOWER MACQUARIE GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2003 - REG 46

46 Rules for change of water source

(1) This clause relates to dealings under section 71R of the Act.

Note: Section 71R dealings are the mechanism by which access licences can move from one water source to another. Once the change in water source has been effected, if permitted, the new licence will have to nominate specified works (by a dealing under section 71W of the Act) in the receiving water source before extraction can commence.

(2) Dealings under section 71R of the Act that change the water source to which an access licence applies are prohibited in these groundwater sources.

(3) An access licence with a share component specifying one of these groundwater sources may be cancelled and a new licence issued specifying another of these groundwater sources only if the total share components of all access licences in the groundwater source in which the access licence is issued remains below the extraction limit for that groundwater source established in clause 27, as amended in clause 28.

(4) Notwithstanding subclause (3), a new licence specifying Zone 3, 4 or 5 may not be issued following cancellation of an access licence in Zone 1, 2, or 6.

(5) The volume of the share component on an access licence issued under this clause is to be the volume of the cancelled access licence share component.