New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE STUARTS POINT GROUNDWATER SOURCE 2003

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 20 June 2006
- Reg 1034 of 2002

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of Plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Date of Commencement
   4.      Waters to which this Plan applies
   5.      Interpretation
   6.      Inspection of detail maps
   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.     Recharge

   PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   17.     Environmental water provisions
   18.     Planned environmental water
   19.     Planned environmental water
   20.     Adaptive environmental water

   PART 5 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   21.     Basic landholder rights
   22.     Domestic and stock rights
   23.     Native title rights

   PART 6 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   24.     Bulk access regime

   PART 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER FOR EXTRACTION UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   25.     Estimate of water requirements

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   26.     Rules for granting access licences
   27.     Aboriginal assessment of new access licences

   PART 9 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average extraction limit

   28.     Long-term average extraction limit

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   29.     Available water determinations

   PART 10 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
   Division 1

   30.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   31.     Water allocation account management
   32.     Water allocation accounts
   33.     Accrual of water allocations
   34.     Annual accounting for water extraction

           Division 3 - Management of local impact

   35.     Management of local impact
   36.     Extraction interference between neighbouring bores
   37.     Water level management
   38.     Water quality management
   39.     Protection of groundwater dependent ecosystems
   40.     Extraction restrictions
   41.     Group registration
   42.     Infrastructure failure

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   43.     Access licence dealing rules
   44.     Rules relating to constraints within a groundwater source
   45.     Rules for change of water source
   46.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   47.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   48.     Rules for water allocation assignments between water sources
   49.     Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   50.     Mandatory condition on access licences
   51.     Access licences
   52.     Mandatory conditions on water supply work (bore) approvals

   PART 13 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   53.     Monitoring

   PART 14 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   54.     Amendment of this Plan
   55.     Amendment relating to planned environmental water
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           Schedule 4 (Repealed)