New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE UPPER AND LOWER NAMOI GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2003 - REG 45

45 Rules relating to constraints within a groundwater source

(1) This clause applies to any relevant dealings under sections 71Q, 71S, and 71W of the Act, and section 71T of the Act with respect to allocation assignments within this groundwater source.

(2) Dealings are prohibited under this clause if:

(a) any of the access licences or water allocations involved are not within these groundwater sources,

(b) the dealing results in the total access licence share components or credited water allocations authorised to be extracted through nominated works at a location exceeding 600 ML/yr per square kilometre,

(c) the dealing would result in the total extraction under access licences through nominated works in the area, plus basic landholder rights extraction, causing an adverse local impact in accordance with Part 10 Division 2 of this Plan,

(e) the dealing involves a supplementary water access licence, or any water allocation credited to a supplementary water access licence.