New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE MURRAH-WALLAGA AREA UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2010

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 October 2011
- Reg 701 of 2010

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.      Management zones
   6.      Extraction management units in these water sources
   7.      Understanding the rules of this Plan
   8.      Interpretation

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

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   13.     Bulk access regime
   14.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
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           Division 1 - Planned environmental water

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

           Division 2 - Adaptive environmental water

   18.     Adaptive environmental water provisions

   PART 5 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER

           Division 1 - General

   19.     Application

           Division 2 - Requirements for water under basic landholder rights

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

           Division 3 - Requirements for water extraction 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 unregulated river access licences
   26.     Share components of aquifer access licences

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   27.     General
   28.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limit
   29.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   30.     Assessment of average annual extraction against the long-term average annual extraction limit
   31.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   32.     General
   33.     Available water determinations made at the commencement of this Plan
   34.     Available water determinations after the first water year of this Plan

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
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   35.     Specific purpose access licence

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules

   36.      General
   37.     Individual access licence account management rules

           Division 2 - Flow classes and daily access rules

   38.      General
   39.     Flow classes
   40.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   41.     Access rules for the taking of water from these alluvial sediments
   42.     Total daily extraction limits
   43.     Individual daily extraction limits

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

   44.     General
   45.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals

           Division 2 - Rules applying to water supply works that take water from these alluvial sediments

   46.     General
   47.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals
   48.     Rules for amending water supply work approvals for replacement groundwater works
   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 sensitive environmental areas
   52.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   53.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   54.     General
   55.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   56.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
   57.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   58.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

           Division 1 - Access licences
           Note

   59.     General

           Division 2 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   60.     General
   61.     Water supply works used to take water from these alluvial sediments

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   62.     General
   63.     Part 1
   64.     Part 7
   65.     Part 8
   66.     Part 9
   67.     Part 10
   68.     Part 11
   69.     Schedules
   70.     Other
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3