New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE PATERSON REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCE 2019

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 July 2019
- Reg 313 of 2019

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
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   1.      Name of Plan
   2.      Nature and status Plan
   3.      Commencement
   4.      Application of Plan
   5.      Interpretation

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
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   6.      Acknowledgement
   7.      Vision statement
   8.      Environmental objectives
   9.      Economic objectives
   10.     Aboriginal cultural objectives
   11.     Social and cultural objectives

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   12.     Bulk access regime
   13.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - 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.     General

           Division 2 - Requirements for water for basic landholder rights
           Note

   18.     Domestic and stock rights
   19.     Native title rights

           Division 3 - Requirements for water under access licences
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   20.     Share components of domestic and stock access licences
   21.     Share components of regulated river (high security) access licences other than regulated river (high security) (town water supply) access licences
   22.     Share components of regulated river (high security) (town water supply) access licences
   23.     Share components of regulated river (general security) access licences
   24.     Share components of supplementary water access licences

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   25.     Calculation of the long-term average annual extraction limit
   26.     Calculation of average annual extraction
   27.     Assessment of compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit

           Division 2 - Compliance with extraction limit

   28.     Action following non-compliance

           Division 3 - Available water determinations

   29.     General
   30.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   31.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) (town water supply) access licences
   32.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences
   33.     Available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences
   34.     Available water determinations for supplementary water access licences

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
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   35.     Rules for granting access licences

   PART 8 - OPERATION OF WATER ALLOCATION ACCOUNTS AND MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
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           Division 1 - Accounting for water allocation accounts

   36.     Credits to and debits from an individual water allocation account
   37.     Limits on water allocation accounts and carryover

           Division 2 - Supplementary water events
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   38.     Taking of water under supplementary water access licences
   39.     Announcement of supplementary water event

   PART 9 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES
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   40.     Conversion of access licence to new category dealings
   41.     Assignment of rights dealings
   42.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
   43.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   44.     Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocations
   45.     Nomination of water supply work dealings

   PART 10 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

           Division 1 - Environmental flow rules

   46.     Environmental flow rules

           Division 2 - Environmental water allowance

   47.     Accounts for the environmental water allowance
   48.     Release rules for the environmental water allowance
   49.     Credits, debits and carryover of the environmental water allowance

           Division 3 - Consultation

   50.     Consultation

           Division 4 - General system operation rules

   51.      Maintenance of water supply
   52.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
   53.     Priority of delivery for access licences and environmental water allowance water
   54.     Rates of change to storage releases
   55.     Supply of orders when remaining allocations are low
   56.     Dam operation during floods and spills

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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           Division 1 - General

   57.     Requirement to notify

           Division 2 - Access licences

   58.     Mandatory conditions on access licences

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   59.     General conditions

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN
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   60.     General
   61.     Amendments relating to Part 1
   62.     Amendments relating to environmental flow rules
   63.     Amendments relating to the environmental water allowance
   64.     Amendments relating to individual daily extraction components
   65.     Dictionary
           Dictionary
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