New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE OURIMBAH CREEK WATER SOURCE 2003

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 20 June 2006
- Reg 116 of 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of Plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Area to which this Plan applies
   5.      Waters to which this Plan applies
   6.      Interpretation
   7.      Effect on licences, authorities and permits under the Water Act 1912
   8.      State Water Management Outcomes Plan

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

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

   PART 3 - BASIS FOR WATER SHARING

   14.     Basis for water sharing
   15.     Climatic variability
   16.     Extraction management unit
   17.     Flow classes
   18.     Flow reference point
   19.     Determination of flow class

   PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   20.     Environmental water provisions
   21.     Planned environmental water
   22.     Extraction by water supply work
   23.     Planned environmental water
   24.     Adaptive environmental water

   PART 5 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   25.     Basic landholder rights
   26.     Domestic and stock rights
   27.     Native title rights
   28.     Harvestable rights

   PART 6 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   29.     Bulk access regime

   PART 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   30.     Requirements for water under access licences
   31.     Estimate of water requirements

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   32.     Rules for granting access licences

   PART 9 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average extraction limit

   33.     Limits to the availability of water
   34.     Extraction management unit
   35.     Long-term average extraction limit
   36.     Variation of the long-term average extraction limit

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   37.     Available water determinations

   PART 10 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   38.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   39.     Water allocation account management
   40.     Water allocation accounts
   41.     Accrual of water allocations
   42.     Annual accounting for water extraction
   43.     Three year accounting for water extraction

           Division 3 - Sharing flows on a daily basis

   44.     Sharing flows on a daily basis
   45.     Total daily extraction limits
   46.     Initial assignment of the TDEL to categories of access licence
   47.     Unassigned TDEL
   48.     Daily extraction limits for individual access licence holders
   49.     Granting of unassigned TDEL
   50.     Adjustment to TDELs and IDELs
   51.     Administrative arrangements for managing access to daily flows
   52.     Infrastructure failure

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   53.     Access licence dealing rules
   54.     Rules relating to constraints within this water source
   55.     Rules for access licence dealings which alter the times, rates or circumstances specified in access licence extraction components
   56.     Rules for change of water source
   57.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   58.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   59.     Rules for water allocation assignments between water sources
   60.     Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   61.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   61A.    Very low flow access conditions
   62.     Unregulated river access licences
   62A.    Unregulated river (Aboriginal cultural) access licences
   63.     Local water utility access licences
   64.     Domestic and stock access licences
   65.     Runoff harvesting access licences
   66.     Mandatory conditions on water supply works approvals

   PART 13 - GRANTING AND AMENDING WATER SUPPLY WORKS APPROVALS

   67.     Granting and amending water supply works approvals
   68.     Runoff harvesting dams
   69.     In-river dams

   PART 14 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   70.     Monitoring and reporting of performance indicators

   PART 15 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   71.     Amendment of this Plan
   72.     Amendment of very low flow provisions
   73.     Review of field verification
   74.     Other amendment of this Plan
   75.     Amendment relating to planned environmental water
   76.     Amendment of Plan relating to floodplain harvesting
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           Schedule 4 (Repealed)