New South Wales Consolidated Regulations New South Wales Consolidated RegulationsWhere a local impact area has been declared licence holders within the area can apply to the Minister to form a group of access licences for the purpose of extracting water in accordance with the local impact rules. Such groups are subject to the following rules:
(a) the Minister is to maintain a register of each group of access licences,
(b) total extraction by all access licences within a group must not exceed their combined restrictions on extractions specified in the local impact rules,
(c) no access licence holder within the group may extract more than the volume of water in their water allocation account or the volume of water that is permitted by the Plan’s water accounting rules in any water year,
(d) an access licence holder may apply to the Minister to be removed from the group. The combined restriction on extraction by the remaining members of the group will be reduced by the restriction on extraction of the licence removed from the group,
(e) an access licence holder may apply to the Minister to be added to the group. The combined restriction on extraction by the expanded members of the group will be increased to the combined restriction on extraction of the enlarged group, and
(f) the Minister has the the right to remove a licence holder from a group where that individual causes the total group extraction restriction to be exceeded, or to dissolve a group where its members exceed their combined extraction restriction.