New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE NSW GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2008

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 29 June 2018
- Reg 202 of 2008

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of this plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Area to which this Plan applies
   5.      Waters to which this Plan applies
   6.      Interpretation

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

   7.      Vision, objectives, strategies and performance indicators
   8.      Vision
   9.      Objectives
   10.     Strategies
   11.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - BASIS FOR WATER SHARING

   12.     Basis for water sharing
   13.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   14.     Environmental water provisions
   15.     Planned environmental water
   16.     Adaptive environmental water

   PART 5 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   17.     Basic landholder rights
   18.     Domestic and stock rights
   19.     Native title rights

   PART 6 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   20.     Bulk access regime

   PART 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   21.     Requirements for water under access licences
   22.     Share component of domestic and stock (conveyance) access licences
   23.     Share component of local water utility access licences
   24.     Share component of aquifer (interference) access licences
   25.     Share component of aquifer access licences
   26.     Share component of supplementary water access licences
   27.     Changes to total share components

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES AND APPROVALS

   28.     Rules for granting access licences
   29.     Rules for granting or amending water supply works approvals
           Note

   PART 9 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   30.     Limits to the availability of water
   31.     Annual extraction limits
   32.     Variation of annual extraction limits
   33.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   34.     Available water determinations

   PART 10 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   35.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   36.     Annual accounting for water extraction

           Division 3 - Management of local impacts

   37.     Management of local impacts
   38.     Water pressure and level management
   39.     Water quality management
   40.     Group registration of access licences
   41.     Infrastructure failure in these water sources

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   42.     Access licence dealing rules
   43.     Rules relating to constraints within a groundwater source
   44.     Rules for change of water source
   45.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   46.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocations
   47.     Rules for water allocation assignments between water sources

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   48.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   49.     Mandatory conditions on water supply works approvals for a water bore
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           APPENDIX 1