New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE UPPER BRUNSWICK RIVER WATER SOURCE 2003

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 20 June 2006
- Reg 144 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.     Extraction management unit
   17.     Flow classes
   18.     Flow reference point
   19.     Determination of flow class

   PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   20.     Environmental water provisions
   21.     Planned environmental water
   22.     Extraction by water supply work
   23.     Planned environmental water
   24.     Adaptive environmental water

   PART 5 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   25.     Basic landholder rights
   26.     Domestic and stock rights
   27.     Native title rights
   28.     Harvestable rights

   PART 6 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   29.     Bulk access regime

   PART 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   30.     Requirements for water under access licences
   31.     Estimate of water requirements

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   32.     Rules for granting access licences
   33.     Aboriginal assessment of new access licences

   PART 9 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average extraction limit

   34.     Limits to the availability of water
   35.     Extraction management unit
   36.     Long-term average extraction limit
   37.     Variation of the long-term average extraction limit

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   38.     Available water determinations

   PART 10 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   39.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   40.     Water allocation account management
   41.     Water allocation accounts
   42.     Accrual of water allocations
   43.     Annual accounting for water extraction
   44.     Three year accounting for water extraction

           Division 3 - Sharing flows on a daily basis

   45.     Sharing flows on a daily basis
   46.     Total daily extraction limits
   47.     Initial assignment of the TDEL to categories of access licence
   48.     Unassigned TDEL
   49.     Daily extraction limits for individual access licence holders
   50.     Granting of unassigned TDEL
   51.     Adjustment to TDELs and IDELs
   52.     Administrative arrangements for managing access to daily flows
   53.     Infrastructure failure

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   54.     Access licence dealing rules
   55.     Rules relating to constraints within this water source
   56.     Rules for access licence dealings which alter the times, rates or circumstances specified in access licence extraction components
   57.     Rules for change of water source
   58.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   59.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   60.     Rules for water allocation assignments between water sources
   61.     Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   62.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   62A.    Very low flow access conditions
   63.     Unregulated river access licences
   64.     Unregulated river (Aboriginal commercial) access licences
   65.     Local water utility access licences
   66.     Domestic and stock access licences
   67.     Runoff harvesting access licences
   68.     Unregulated river (Aboriginal cultural) access licences
   69.     Unregulated river (research) access licences
   70.     Mandatory conditions on water supply works approvals

   PART 13 - GRANTING AND AMENDING WATER SUPPLY WORKS APPROVALS

   71.     Granting and amending water supply works approvals
   72.     Runoff harvesting dams
   73.     In-river dams

   PART 14 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   74.     Monitoring and reporting of performance indicators

   PART 15 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   75.     Amendment of this Plan
   76.     Amendment relating to planned environmental water
   77.     Amendment of Plan relating to floodplain harvesting
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           Schedule 4 (Repealed)