New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE MURRAY UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2011

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 2 October 2020
- Reg 23 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.      Management zones
   6.      Extraction management units in these water sources
   7.      Understanding the rules in 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 - PLANNED ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
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   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 access licences
   26.     Share components of unregulated river (high flow) access licences

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

   27.     General
   28.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   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 for the EMUs
   32.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits in the Upper Murray Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   33.     General
   34.     Available water determinations made at the commencement of this Plan for the Murray Unregulated River Water Sources
   35.     Available water determinations after the first water year in which this Plan has effect for the Murray Unregulated River Water Sources
   36.     Available water determinations for the Upper Murray Groundwater Source

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

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules

   39.      General
   40.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Murray Unregulated River Water Sources
   41.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Upper Murray Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Flow classes and daily access rules
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   42.     General
   43.     Flow classes
   44.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   45.     Total daily extraction limits
   46.     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

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

           Division 2 - Rules applying to water supply works that take water from the Upper Murray Groundwater Source

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

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

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

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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           Division 1 - General

   64.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
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   65.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
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   66.     General
   67.     Water supply works used to take water from the Upper Murray Groundwater Source

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

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