New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE NEW SOUTH WALES MURRAY AND LOWER DARLING REGULATED RIVERS WATER SOURCES 2003

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 21 November 2008
- Reg 186 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 sources 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
   Note

   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 (conveyance) access licences
   26.     Share component of regulated river (general security) 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.     Long-term extraction limit
   31.     Volume of the long-term extraction limit
   32.     Assessment of the long-term extraction limit and current long-term average annual extraction
   33.     Compliance with the long-term extraction limit

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

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

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   41.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

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

           Division 3 - Extraction conditions

   47.     General priority of extractions
   48.     Numerical specification of extraction entitlements
   49.     Extraction under supplementary water access licences

   PART 10 - DEALINGS WITH ACCESS LICENCES

   50.     Access licence dealing rules
   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 flow
   61.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
   62.     Flood operation rules
   63.     Airspace

   PART 13 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   64.     Monitoring

   PART 14 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   65.     Changes to these water sources
   66.     Barmah-Millewa Allowance and Barmah-Millewa Overdraw
   67.     Revision of regulated river (conveyance) access licence available water determination rules
   68.     Replacement of replenishment flow rules
   69.     Amendment relating to planned environmental water
   70.     Amendment of Plan relating to floodplain harvesting
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