New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE MURRUMBIDGEE REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCE 2003 - REG 51

51 Extraction of water under supplementary water access licences

(1) The taking of water under supplementary water access licences should only be permitted in accordance with announcements made by the Director-General of the Department of Land and Water Conservation.

(2) The maximum volume that may be taken under supplementary water access licences during each period of time to which an announcement applies may be expressed as a number of megalitres per unit share.

Note: At the gazettal of this Plan, this was not the practice for the Murrumbidgee Regulated River Water Source but may need to occur at some stage during the term of this Plan.

(3) The taking of water under supplementary water access licences will be managed, as far as possible to evenly share access opportunity amongst all supplementary water access licences.

(4) The taking of water under supplementary water access licences should only be permitted while flows are in excess of those required:

(a) under the environmental water provisions specified in Part 3,

(b) to supply stock and domestic rights and native title rights requirements,

(c) to supply higher priority access licence requirements,

(d) to provide relevant replenishment flows as specified in clause 62, and

(e) to satisfy requirements in the New South Wales Murray Regulated River Water Source, as specified in subclause (5).

(5) When the sum of available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences in this water source have exceeded 0.7 megalitres per unit share and the sum of water allocations from available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences in the New South Wales Murray Regulated River Water Source (as defined in the Water Sharing Plan for the New South Wales Murray and Lower Darling Regulated Rivers Water Sources 2003 ) plus water carried over from the previous water year, is less than 0.6 megalitres multiplied by the total number of unit shares specified in share components of regulated river (general security) access licences in the New South Wales Murray Regulated River Water Source then only those flows that cannot be re-regulated in the New South Wales Murray Regulated River Water Source may be made available for extraction by supplementary water access licence holders in this water source.

(6) Pursuant to section 45 (1) (b) of the Act and clause 73 this Plan, the Minister may vary the access rules under this clause to the extent specified in clause 73.