New South Wales Consolidated Regulations New South Wales Consolidated RegulationsNotwithstanding the forgoing provisions of this Division, this Plan provides that access licences may be managed as a group with respect to the IDELs, subject to the following rules:
(a) all access licences (excepting local water utility licences) with IDELs shall be made part of a group established and maintained by the Minister at the time when IDELs are first assigned to licences under clause 48,
(b) access licence holders have the right to have their access licence removed from the group, in which case they shall be permitted to extract under that access licence a maximum of the IDEL,
(c) where an access licence is removed or added to a group, the group combined IDEL shall be adjusted by the amount of IDEL on the subject access licence,
(d) access licence holders may make a request to form a group for their access licences,
(e) daily extraction under all access licences within a group will be assessed as a whole against the combined IDELs,
(f) daily extraction by a group cannot exceed the combined IDELs of all access licences in the group,
(g) where it been assessed that a holder of a licence within a group is repeatedly causing the combined IDEL to be exceeded then the Minister may remove that licence from the group,
(h) where daily extraction by a group exceeds the combined IDELs of all access licences in the group, then the Minister may dissolve the group and require each access licence holder to comply with the licensed IDELs,
(i) should a holder of an access licence that is part of a group commit the IDELs of that access licence to the environment consistent with section 8 (1) (c) of the Act, then those IDELs shall be removed from the group,
(j) an access licence may not be in more than one group, and
(k) the Minister may refuse to allow an access licence to be included in a group, and may refuse a request to form a group.