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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE LACHLAN REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCE 2016

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 27 June 2018
- Reg 365 of 2016

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
   Note

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

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

   7.      Vision statement
   8.      Acknowledgment
   9.      Environmental objectives, strategies and performance indicators
   10.     Economic objectives, strategies and performance indicators
   11.     Social and cultural objectives, strategies and performance indicators

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   12.     Bulk access regime
   13.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - PLANNED ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
   Note

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

   PART 5 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER

           Division 1 - General

   17.     Application

           Division 2 - Requirements for water for basic landholder rights

   18.     Domestic and stock rights
   19.     Native title rights

           Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences
           Note

   20.     Share component of domestic and stock access licences
   21.     Share component of local water utility access licences
   22.     Share component of regulated river (high security) access licences
   23.     Share component of regulated river (general security) access licences
   24.     Share component of regulated river (conveyance) access licence
   25.     Share component of supplementary water access licences

   PART 6 - SYSTEM OPERATION REQUIREMENTS
   Note

           Division 1 - Environmental water rules

   26.      Environmental flow rules for this water source
   27.     Environmental water allowances
   28.     Water quality allowance

           Division 2 - General system operations rules

   29.      Maintenance of water supply
   30.     Replenishment flows
   31.     Minimum flow rule
   32.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
   33.     Priority of extractions for access licences
   34.     Numerical specification of extraction components
   35.     Rates of change of releases from water storages
   36.     Dam operation during floods and spills
   37.     Airspace operation rules

   PART 7 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER
   Note

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   38.     General
   39.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limit
   40.     Calculation of the long-term average annual extraction limit and current average annual extractions
   41.     Assessment of average annual extractions against long-term average annual extraction limit
   42.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for this water source

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   43.     General
   44.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   45.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   46.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences
   47.     Available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences
   48.     Available water determinations for regulated river (conveyance) access licences

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   49.     Specific purpose access licences

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   50.     General
   51.     Crediting rules for water allocation accounts for regulated river (general security) and regulated river (high security) access licences
   52.     Accounting for allocations assigned to and from regulated river (high security) access licences and regulated river (general security) access licences
   53.     Debiting rules for water allocation accounts
   54.     Maximum volume taken or held under a regulated river (general security) access licence
   55.     Carryover rules for water allocation accounts
   56.     Withdrawals from water allocation accounts for regulated river (high security) access licences, regulated river (general security) access licences and regulated river (conveyance) access licences

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   57.     General
   58.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   59.     Assignment of rights dealings
   60.     Amendment of share component (change of water source)
   61.     Assignment of water allocation dealings
   62.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   63.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
   Note

           Division 1 - General

   64.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   65.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals

   66.     General

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   67.     General
   68.     Part 1
   69.     Part 6
   70.     Part 7
   71.     Part 9
   72.     Part 10
   73.     Part 11
   74.     Dictionary
   75.     Other
           Dictionary
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3


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