New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE LOWER MURRAY-DARLING UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2011

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 2 October 2020
- Reg 22 of 2012

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
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   1.      Name of this Plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Commencement of this Plan
   4.      Application of this Plan
   5.      Understanding the rules in this Plan
   6.      Interpretation

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
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   7.      Vision statement
   8.      Objectives
   9.      Strategies
   10.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   11.     Bulk access regime
   12.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - PLANNED ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
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   13.     General
   14.     Commitment and identification of planned environmental water
   15.     Establishment and maintenance of planned environmental water

   PART 5 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER

           Division 1 - General

   16.     Application

           Division 2 - Requirements for water for basic landholder rights

   17.     Domestic and stock rights
   18.     Native title rights
   19.     Harvestable rights

           Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences

   20.     Share components of domestic and stock access licences
   21.     Share components of local water utility access licences
   22.     Share components of unregulated river access licences
   23.     Share components of aquifer access licences
   24.     Share components of salinity and water table management access licences

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER
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           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limits

   25.     General
   26.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   27.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   28.     Assessment of average annual extraction against the long-term average annual extraction limit
   29.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the Lower Murray-Darling Unregulated Water Source
   30.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the Lower Darling Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   31.     General
   32.     Available water determinations made at the commencement of this Plan for the Lower Murray-Darling Unregulated Water Source
   33.     Available water determinations after the first water year in which this Plan has effect for the Lower Murray-Darling Unregulated Water Source
   34.     Available water determinations for the Lower Darling Alluvial Groundwater Source

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
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   35.     Specific purpose access licences
   36.     Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules

   37.      General
   38.     Individual access licence account management rules for access licences in the Lower Murray-Darling Unregulated Water Source
   39.     Individual access licence account management rules for access licences in the Lower Darling Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Daily access rules
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   40.     General
   41.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   42.     Access rules for the taking of water from the Lower Darling Alluvial Groundwater Source
   43.     Total daily extraction limits
   44.     Individual daily extraction limits

   PART 9 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
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           Division 1 - Rules applying to water supply works that take surface water

   45.     General
   46.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals
   47.     Rules for the use of water supply works located on a pool, lagoon or lake

           Division 2 - Rules applying to water supply works that take water from the Lower Darling Alluvial Groundwater Source

   48.     General
   49.     Rules for amending water supply work approvals for replacement groundwater works
   50.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   51.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   52.     Rules for water supply works located near sensitive environmental areas
   53.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   54.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

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

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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           Division 1 - General

   62.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
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   63.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
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   64.     General
   65.     Water supply works used to take water from the Lower Darling Alluvial Groundwater Source

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   66.     General
   67.     Part 1
   68.     Part 6
   69.     Part 8
   70.     Part 9
   71.     Part 11
   72.     Schedules
   73.     Other
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           SCHEDULE 7
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2