New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE NSW BORDER RIVERS UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2012

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 2 October 2020
- Reg 210 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
   4A.     Management zones
   5.      Extraction management units in these water sources
   6.      Understanding the rules in this Plan
   7.      Interpretation

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

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   12.     Bulk access regime
   13.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - PLANNED ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
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   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
   20.     Harvestable rights

           Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences

   21.     Share components of domestic and stock access licences
   22.     Share components of local water utility access licences
   23.     Share components of unregulated river access licences
   24.     Share components of unregulated river (special additional high flow) access licences
   25.     Share components of aquifer access licences
   26.     Share components of aquifer (high security) access licences

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

   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 extractions against the long-term average annual extraction limits
   31.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   32.     General
   33.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   34.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   35.     Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
   36.     Available water determinations for unregulated river (special additional high flow) access licences
   37.     Available water determinations for aquifer access licences
   38.     Available water determinations for aquifer (high security) access licences

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

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules
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   41.     Individual access licence account management rules for the NSW Border Rivers Unregulated Water Sources
   42.     Individual access licence account management rules for the NSW Border Rivers Alluvial Groundwater Sources

           Division 2 - Daily access rules
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   43.     General
   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 the granting or amending of water supply work approvals for water supply works that take surface water

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

           Division 2 - Rules applying to the granting or amending of water supply work approvals for water supply works that take groundwater

   49.     General
   50.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works in the Macintyre Alluvial Groundwater Source, the NSW Border Rivers Downstream Keetah Bridge Alluvial Groundwater Source and the Ottleys Creek Alluvial Groundwater Source
   51.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works in the NSW Border Rivers Upstream Keetah Bridge Alluvial Groundwater Source
   52.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   53.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent ecosystems
   54.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   55.     Replacement groundwater works

           Division 3 - Rules for the use of water supply works used to take groundwater

   56.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   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 dealings (change of water source)
   61.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   62.     Interstate transfer of access licences and assignment of water allocation
   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 authorised to take water from the NSW Border Rivers Alluvial Groundwater Sources

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   68.     General
   69.     Part 1
   70.     Part 4
   71.     Part 6
   72.     Part 8
   73.     Part 9
   74.     Part 11
   75.     Dictionary
   76.     Schedules
   77.     Other
           Dictionary
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 1A
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           SCHEDULE 7
           SCHEDULE 8
           SCHEDULE 9
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3
           APPENDIX 4