New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE NEW SOUTH WALES MURRAY AND LOWER DARLING REGULATED RIVERS WATER SOURCES 2003 - REG 16

16 Adaptive environmental water

(1) At any time an access licence holder may, by a process determined by the Minister, commit all or part of their licence as adaptive environmental water.

(2) The Minister may grant an access licence in a water source to which this Plan applies if the licence is subject to an adaptive environmental water condition and arises through water savings in the system made in that water source as referred to in section 8C (1) of the Act.

(2A) The Minister may change the category or subcategory of an access licence in a water source to which this Plan applies if the licence is subject to an adaptive environmental water condition that arises through water savings as referred to in section 8D of the Act.

(3) The following licences shall be granted to and held by the Ministerial Corporation, committed as adaptive environmental water and made subject to the relevant mandatory condition set out in Part 11 of this Plan:

(a) a regulated river (conveyance) access licence with a share component of 30,000 unit shares, and

(b) a regulated river (high security) access licence with a share component of 2,027 unit shares.

Note: The licence referred to in subclause (3) (a) is a consequence of the Murray Irrigation Limited privatisation arrangements and the licence in (3) (b) is the result of water savings resulting from works installed to regulate inflows to Moira Lake.

(4) The management of water allocations accruing to the access licences in subclause (3) should be in accordance with a protocol established by the Minister in consultation with the Minister for the Environment.