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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GWYDIR UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2012

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 2 October 2020
- Reg 355 of 2012

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
   Note

   1.      Name of this Plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Commencement of this Plan
   4.      Application of this Plan
   5.      Management zones
   6.      Extraction management unit for these water sources
   7.      Understanding the rules in this Plan
   8.      Interpretation

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
   Note

   9.      Vision statement
   9A.     Acknowledgement
   10.     Objectives
   11.     Strategies
   12.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   13.     Bulk access regime
   14.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - PLANNED ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
   Note

   15.     General
   16.     Commitment and identification of planned environmental water
   17.     Establishment and maintenance of planned environmental water

   PART 5 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER

           Division 1 - General

   18.     Application

           Division 2 - Requirements for water for basic landholder rights

   19.     Domestic and stock rights
   20.     Native title rights
   21.     Harvestable rights

           Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences

   22.     Share components of domestic and stock access licences
   23.     Share components of local water utility access licences
   24.     Share components of unregulated river access licences
   25.     Share components of aquifer (high security) access licences

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limits

   26.     General
   27.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   28.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   29.     Assessment of average annual extractions against the long-term average annual extraction limits
   30.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits for the EMU
   31.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits for the Upper Gwydir Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   32.     General
   33.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   34.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   35.     Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
   36.     Available water determinations for aquifer (high security) access licences

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   37.     Specific purpose access licences
   38.     Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules
           Note

   39.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Gwydir Unregulated River Water Sources
   40.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Upper Gwydir Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Flow classes and daily access rules

   41.      General
   42.     Flow classes
   43.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   44.     Total daily extraction limits
   45.     Individual daily extraction limits

   PART 9 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
   Note

           Division 1 - Rules applying to the granting or amending of water supply work approvals for water supply works that take surface water

   46.     General
   47.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals

           Division 2 - Rules applying to the granting or amending of water supply work approvals for water supply works that take groundwater

   48.     General
   49.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   50.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   51.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent ecosystems
   52.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   53.     Replacement groundwater works

           Division 3 - Rules for the use of water supply works used to take groundwater

   54.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES
   Note

   55.     General
   56.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   57.     Assignment of rights dealings
   58.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
   59.     Amendment of extraction component dealings
   60.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   61.     Interstate transfer of access licences and assignment of water allocation
   62.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
   Note

           Division 1 - General

   63.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   64.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   65.     General
   66.     Water supply works authorised to take water from the Upper Gwydir Alluvial Groundwater Source

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   67.     General
   68.     Part 1
   69.     Part 4
   70.     Part 6
   71.     Part 8
   72.     Part 9
   73.     Part 10
   74.     Part 11
   75.     Dictionary
   76.     Schedules
   77.     Other
           Dictionary
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 1A
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           SCHEDULE 7
           SCHEDULE 8
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3
           APPENDIX 4
           APPENDIX 5


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