New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE NORTH COAST FRACTURED AND POROUS ROCK GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2016

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 July 2016
- Reg 375 of 2016

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
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   8.      Vision statement
   9.      Acknowledgement
   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

           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 aquifer access licences
   24.     Share components of supplementary water (subcategory "storage") access licences

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

   25.     General
   26.     Volume of the long-term extraction limits
   27.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   28.     Assessment of extractions against the long-term extraction limits
   29.     Compliance with the long-term extraction limits

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   30.     General
   31.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   32.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   33.     Available water determinations for aquifer access licences
   34.     Available water determinations for supplementary water (subcategory "storage") access licences

   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
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   37.     Individual access licence account management rules for these groundwater sources, excluding the Gloucester Basin Groundwater Source and Sydney Basin-North Coast Groundwater Source
   38.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Gloucester Basin Groundwater Source and Sydney Basin-North Coast Groundwater Source

   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

   39.     General
   40.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   41.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   42.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater-dependent ecosystems
   43.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater-dependent culturally significant sites
   44.     Replacement groundwater works

           Division 2 - Rules for the use of water supply works

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

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   46.     General
   47.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   48.     Assignment of rights dealings
   49.     Amendment of share components dealings (change of water source)
   50.     Amendment of extraction component dealings
   51.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   52.     Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
   53.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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           Division 1 - General

   54.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
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   55.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   56.     General

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   57.     General
   58.     Part 1
   59.     Part 4
   60.     Part 6
   61.     Part 7
   62.     Part 8
   63.     Part 9
   64.     Part 11
   65.     Dictionary
   66.     Schedules
   67.     Other
           Dictionary
           SCHEDULE 1
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3
           APPENDIX 4