New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE LOWER MURRAY GROUNDWATER SOURCE

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 12 August 2011
- Reg 637 of 2006

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of Plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Area to which this Plan applies
   5.      Waters to which this plan applies
   6.      Interpretation
   7.      Effect on licences, authorities and permits under the Water Act 1912
   8.      Management plans to be consistent with other instruments

   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 - BASIS FOR WATER SHARING

   14.     Basis for water sharing
   15.     Climatic variability
   16.     Recharge

   PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   17.     Environmental water provisions
   18.     Planned environmental water
   19.     Adaptive environmental water

   PART 5 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   20.     Basic landholder rights
   21.     Domestic and stock rights
   22.     Native title rights

   PART 6 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   23.     Bulk access regime

   PART 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER FOR EXTRACTION UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   24.     Requirements for water under access licences
   25.     Share components of domestic and stock access licences
   26.     Share components of local water utility access licences
   27.     Share components of aquifer access licences
   28.     Share components of supplementary water access licences
   29.     Changes to share components

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   30.     Rules for granting access licences
   31.     Rules for granting or amending water supply works approvals

   PART 9 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average extraction limits

   32.     Extraction limit
   33.     Compliance with the extraction limit

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   34.     Available water determinations

   PART 10 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   35.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   36.     Water allocation account management
   37.     Water allocation accounts
   38.     Accrual of water allocations
   39.     Annual accounting for water extraction

           Division 3 - Management of local impacts

   40.     Management of local impacts
   41.     Water level management
   42.     Water quality management
   43.     Protection of aquifer integrity
   44.     Extraction restrictions
   45.     Group registration
   46.     Infrastructure failure
   47.     Protection of groundwater dependent ecosystems

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   48.     Access licence dealing rules
   49.     Rules relating to constraints within a groundwater source
   50.     Rules for change of water source
   51.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   52.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   53.     Rules for water allocation assignments between water sources
   54.     Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   55.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   56.     Access licence conditions
   57.     Mandatory conditions on water supply work (bore) approvals

   PART 13 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   58.     Monitoring
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2