New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE LOWER GWYDIR GROUNDWATER SOURCE 2019

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 July 2019
- Reg 300 of 2019

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

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

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

   PART 3 - BASIS FOR WATER SHARING

   12.     Basis for water sharing
   13.     Climatic variability
   14.     Recharge

   PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   15.     Environmental water provisions
   16.     Planned environmental water
   17.     Adaptive environmental water

   PART 5 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

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

   PART 6 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   21.     Bulk access regime

   PART 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER FOR EXTRACTION UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   22.     Requirements for water under access licences
   23.     Share components of domestic and stock access licences
   24.     Share components of local water utility access licences
   25.     Share components of aquifer access licences
   26.     Changes to share components

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   27.     Rules for granting access licences

   PART 9 - LIMIT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average extraction limit

   28.     Extraction limit
   29.     Variation of extraction limits
   30.     Compliance with the extraction limit

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   31.     Available water determinations

   PART 10 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   32.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   33.     Water allocation account management
   34.     Water allocation accounts
   35.     Accrual of water allocations
   36.     Annual accounting for water extraction

           Division 3 - Management of local impacts

   37.     Management of local impacts
   38.     Extraction interference between neighbouring bores
   39.     Water level management
   40.     Water quality management
   41.     Protection of groundwater dependent ecosystems
   42.     Protection of aquifer integrity
   43.     Extraction Restrictions
   44.     Group registration
   45.     Infrastructure failure

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   46.     Access licence dealing rules
   47.     Rules relating to constraints within a groundwater source
   48.     Rules for change of water source
   49.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   50.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   51.     Rules for water allocation assignments between water sources
   52.     Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   53.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   54.     Access licence conditions
   55.     Mandatory conditions on water supply work (bore) approvals

   PART 13 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   56.     Monitoring

   PART 14 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   57.     Amendment of this Plan
   58.     Amendment relating to planned environmental water
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           APPENDIX 1