New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE UPPER NAMOI AND LOWER NAMOI REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCES 2003

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 January 2006
- Reg 179 of 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Water sources and waters to which this Plan applies
   5.      Interpretation
   6.      Effect on licences, authorities and permits under the Water Act 1912
   7.      State Water Management Outcomes Plan

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

   8.      Vision, objectives, strategies and performance indicators
   9.      Vision
   10.     Objectives
   11.     Strategies
   12.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   13.     Environmental water provisions
   14.     Planned environmental water
   15.     Planned environmental water
   16.     Adaptive environmental water

   PART 4 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   17.     Basic landholder rights
   18.     Domestic and stock rights
   19.     Native title rights

   PART 5 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   20.     Bulk access regime

   PART 6 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   21.     Requirements for water under access licences
   22.     Share component of domestic and stock access licences
   23.     Share component of local water utility access licences
   24.     Share component of regulated river (high security) access licences
   25.     Share component of regulated river (general security) access licences
   26.     Share component of supplementary water access licences
   27.     Changes to total share component

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   28.     Rules for granting access licences

   PART 8 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term extraction limit

   29.     Limits to the availability of water
   30.     Volume of the long-term extraction limit
   31.     Assessment of the long-term extraction limit, the current long-term average annual extraction from these water sources and growth in water use by Tamworth City Council
   32.     Maintaining compliance with the long-term extraction limit
   33.     Limit to the volumes that may be taken under or assigned from regulated river (general security) access licences in the Lower Namoi Water Source

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   34.     Available water determinations
   35.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   36.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   37.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences
   38.     Available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences
   39.     Available water determinations for supplementary water access licences

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   40.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   41.     Water allocation accounts
   42.     Accrual of water allocations
   43.     Volume taken under access licences
   44.     Accounting of assigned water allocations and return flows
   45.     Carrying over of water allocation credits and water allocation account limits

           Division 3 - Extraction conditions

   46.     General priority of extractions
   47.     Numerical specification of extraction components
   48.     Extraction of water in the Upper Namoi Regulated River Water Source under clause 38 (8) provisions
   49.     Taking of water under supplementary water licences in the Lower Namoi Regulated River Water Source

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   50.     Access licence dealing rules
   51.     Rules relating to constraints within these water sources
   52.     Rules for change of water source
   53.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   54.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   55.     Rules for water allocation assignment between water sources
   56.     Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   57.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   58.     Mandatory conditions on water supply works approvals

   PART 12 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

   59.     System operation rules
   60.     Replenishment flows
   61.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
   62.     Rates of change to releases from water storages
   63.     Bulk transfer rules between storages
   64.     Supply of orders when remaining allocations are low
   65.     Dam operation during floods and spills

   PART 13 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   66.     Monitoring

   PART 14 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   67.     Changes to these water sources
   68.     Other amendments of this Plan
   69.     Amendment relating to planned environmental water
   70.     Amendment of Plan relating to floodplain harvesting
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           Schedule 5 (Repealed)