New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE STUARTS POINT GROUNDWATER SOURCE 2003 - REG 51

51 Access licences

(1) All access licences shall have mandatory conditions to give effect to the provisions of this Plan in relation to the following:

(a) the specification of share components of the licences,

(b) the specification of extraction components of the licences,

(c) the requirement that all extraction under access licences will be subject to the available water determinations,

(d) the requirement that all extraction under access licences will be subject to any local impact management restrictions established in this Plan,

(e) the requirement that all extraction under access licences will be subject to the account management rules established in this Plan,

(f) the taking of water in accordance with the access licence will only be permitted if the resulting debit from the access licence water allocation account does not exceed the volume of water allocation remaining in the account, and

(g) any other conditions required to implement the provisions of this Plan.

(2) All local water utility access licences shall have mandatory conditions that only allow the taking of water for the exercise of a water supply function of the local water utility or for other such purpose provided for under the Act.

(3) All aquifer (Aboriginal cultural) access licences shall have mandatory conditions that only allow the taking of water by Aboriginal persons or communities for personal, domestic and communal purposes including the purposes of drinking, food preparation, washing, manufacturing traditional artefacts, watering domestic gardens, cultural teaching, hunting, fishing, and gathering, and for recreational, cultural and ceremonial purposes.