New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE PATERSON REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCE 2007 - REG 4

4 Area and waters to which this Plan applies

(1) The area in respect of which this Plan is made is that area of land within part of the Hunter Water Management Area known as the Paterson Regulated River Water Source (hereafter "this water source").

(2) The Hunter Water Management Area is as constituted by the Ministerial Order published in the NSW Government Gazette (hereafter "the Gazette") on 23 November 2001.

Note: The Hunter Water Management Area is shown on the map in Appendix 2.

(3) The Paterson Regulated River Water Source is:

(a) between the banks of the Paterson River, from the upper limit of Lostock Dam water storage, including all tributaries to the storage (named and unnamed) up to the high water mark of the storage and downstream to the determined tidal limit, which at the date of commencement of this Plan have been declared by the Minister to be regulated rivers, and

(b) the unconsolidated alluvial sediments underlying the rivers referred to in subclause (a),

(c) the unconsolidated alluvial sediments underlying the land that is within 40 metres of the top of the bank of all rivers referred to in subclause (a).

Note: A regulated river is a river that has been declared by the Minister, by order published in the New South Wales Government Gazette, to be a regulated river.

Note: The regulated river referred to in subclause (3) is listed in Appendix 1.

(4) This Plan applies to all waters contained within this water source.

(5) The Minister may under Section 45 (1) (b) of the Act amend the rivers included in this water source as specified under subclause (3) (a) in accordance with clause 61 of this Plan.