New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE PATERSON REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCE 2007

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 7 December 2007
- Reg 271 of 2007

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Area 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 PROVISIONS

   13.     Environmental water provisions
   14.     Planned environmental water
   15.     Adaptive environmental water

   PART 4 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   16.     Basic landholder rights
   17.     Domestic and stock rights
   18.     Native title rights

   PART 5 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   19.     Bulk access regime

   PART 6 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   20.     Requirements for water under access licences
   21.     Share component of domestic and stock access licences
   22.     Share component of local water utility access licences
   23.     Share component of regulated river (high security) access licences
   24.     Share component of regulated river (general security) access licences
   25.     Share component of supplementary water access licences
   26.     Changes to total share component

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING OF ACCESS LICENCES

   27.     Rules for granting access licences

   PART 8 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   28.     Limit to the availability of water
   29.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limit
   30.     Assessment of current long-term average annual extraction
   31.     Maintaining compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   32.     Available water determinations
   33.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   34.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   35.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences and for regulated river (general security) access licences
   36.     Available water determinations for supplementary water access licences

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   37.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   38.     Water allocation accounts
   39.     Accrual of water allocation accounts
   40.     Volume taken under access licences
   41.     Accounting of assigned allocations and return flows
   42.     Carrying over of water allocation credits and water allocation account limits

           Division 3 - Extraction conditions

   43.     General priority of extractions
   44.     Numerical specification of extraction components
   45.     Extraction under supplementary water access licences

   PART 10 - DEALINGS WITH ACCESS LICENCES

   46.     Access licence dealings
   47.     Rules relating to constraints within this water source
   48.     Rules for change of water source
   49.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   50.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   51.     Rules for water allocation assignment between water sources
   52.     Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   53.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   54.     Mandatory conditions on water supply works approvals

   PART 12 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

   55.     System operation rules
   56.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
   57.     Rates of change to releases from water storages
   58.     Dam operation during floods and spills

   PART 13 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   59.     Monitoring

   PART 14 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   60.     Amendment of this Plan
   61.     Amendment of the Plan Area
   62.     Amendment of Planned Environmental Water
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