New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE LACHLAN REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCE 2003

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 January 2006
- Reg 180 of 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Water source 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

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

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

   PART 3 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

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

   PART 4 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

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

   PART 5 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   20.     Bulk access regime

   PART 6 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

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

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   29.     Rules for granting access licences

   PART 8 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term extraction limit

   30.     Limit to the availability of water
   31.     Volume of the long-term extraction limit
   32.     Assessment of the long-term extraction limit and current long-term average annual extraction
   33.     Maintaining compliance with the long-term extraction limit
   34.     Compliance Assessment Advisory Committee
   35.     Limit to the annual volume that may be taken under or assigned from regulated river (general security) access licences

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   36.     Available water determinations
   37.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   38.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   39.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences
   40.     Available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences
   41.     Available water determinations for regulated river (conveyance) access licences

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   42.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

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

           Division 3 - Extraction conditions

   48.     General priority of extractions
   49.     Numerical specification of extraction components

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

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

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   57.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   58.     Mandatory conditions on water supply works approvals

   PART 12 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

   59.     System operation rules
   60.     Replenishment flows
   61.     Minimum flow levels
   62.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
   63.     Rates of change of 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.     Changes to this water source
   68.     Amendment of planned environmental water rules
   69.     Amendment of regulated river (conveyance) access licence rules
   70.     Amendment of rules relating to constraints within a water source
   71.     Amendment relating to planned environmental water
   72.     Amendment of Plan relating to floodplain harvesting
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           Schedule 5 (Repealed)