New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE NORTH WESTERN UNREGULATED AND FRACTURED ROCK WATER SOURCES 2011

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 6 January 2012
- Reg 490 of 2011

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.      Understanding the rules in this Plan
   6.      Interpretation

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

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   11.     Bulk access regime
   12.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - PLANNED ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
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   13.     General
   14.     Commitment and identification of planned environmental water
   15.     Establishment and maintenance of planned environmental water

   PART 5 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER

           Division 1 - General

   16.     Application

           Division 2 - Requirements for water for basic landholder rights

   17.     Domestic and stock rights
   18.     Native title rights
   19.     Harvestable rights

           Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences

   20.     Share components of domestic and stock access licences
   21.     Share components of local water utility access licences
   22.     Share components of unregulated river access licences
   23.     Share components of aquifer access licences

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limits

   24.     General
   25.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   26.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   27.     Assessment of average annual extraction against the long-term average annual extraction limit
   28.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the North Western Water Source
   29.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits for these fractured rock groundwater sources

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   30.     General
   31.     Available water determinations made at the commencement of this Plan for access licences in the North Western Water Source
   32.     Available water determinations after the first water year of this Plan for access licences in the North Western Water Source
   33.     Available water determinations for access licences in these fractured rock groundwater sources

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

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules

   36.      General
   37.     Individual access licence account management rules for the North Western Water Source
   38.     Individual access licence account management rules for these fractured rock groundwater sources

           Division 2 - Daily access rules

   39.      General
   40.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   41.     Total daily extraction limits
   42.     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

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

           Division 2 - Rules applying to water supply works that take water from these fractured rock groundwater sources

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

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

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

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

           Division 1 - General

   60.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   61.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   62.     General
   63.     Water supply works used to take water from these fractured rock groundwater sources

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   64.     General
   65.     Part 1
   66.     Part 4
   67.     Part 6
   68.     Part 8
   69.     Part 9
   70.     Part 10
   71.     Part 11
   72.     Schedules
   73.     Other
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3