New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE TOMAGO TOMAREE STOCKTON GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2003

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 January 2006
- Reg 118 of 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of Plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Area to which this Plan applies
   5.      Waters to which this Plan applies
   6.      Interpretation
   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 and native title rights

   PART 6 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   23.     Bulk access regime

   PART 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER FOR EXTRACTION UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   24.     Estimate of water requirements

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   25.     Rules for granting access licences

   PART 9 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average extraction limits

   26.     Long-term average extraction limits
   27.     Variation of the long-term average extraction limits

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   28.     Available water determinations

   PART 10 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   29.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

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

           Division 3 - Management of local impacts

   34.     Management of local impacts
   35.     Extraction interference between neighbouring bores
   36.     Water level management
   37.     Water quality management
   38.     Protection of groundwater dependent ecosystems
   39.     Extraction restrictions
   40.     Infrastructure failure

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

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

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   48.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   49.     Access licence conditions
   50.     Mandatory conditions on water supply work (bore) approvals

   PART 13 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   51.     Monitoring and reporting of performance indicators

   PART 14 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   52.     Amendment of this Plan
   53.     Amendment relating to planned environmental water
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           Schedule 4 (Repealed)