New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE BELUBULA REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCE 2012

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 27 June 2018
- Reg 489 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
   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 regulated river (high security) access licences
   23.     Share components of regulated river (general security) access licences
   24.     Share components of supplementary water access licences

   PART 6 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

   25.     General
   26.     Environmental release rules for Carcoar Dam
   27.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
   28.     Rates of change to storage releases
   29.     Supply of orders when remaining allocations are low
   30.     Dam operation during floods and spills
   31.     Supply for domestic and stock and native title rights

   PART 7 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   32.     General
   33.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limit
   34.     Calculation of the long-term average annual extraction limit and current levels of annual extraction
   35.     Assessment of average annual extractions against the long-term average annual extraction limit
   36.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit
   37.     Limit to the annual volume that may be taken under regulated river (general security) access licences

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   38.     General
   39.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   40.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   41.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences
   42.     Available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences
   43.     Available water determinations for supplementary water access licences

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
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   44.     Specific purpose access licences

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules
           Note

   45.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Belubula Regulated River Water Source

           Division 2 - Daily access rules

   46.      General priority of extractions for access licences
   47.     Taking of uncontrolled flows under regulated river (high security) access licences
   48.     Taking of uncontrolled flows under regulated river (general security) access licences
   49.     Taking of water under supplementary water access licences

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES
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   50.     General
   51.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   52.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
   53.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   54.     Interstate transfer of access licence and assignment of water allocation

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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           Division 1 - General

   55.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   56.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   57.     General

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   58.     General
   59.     Part 1
   60.     Part 8
   61.     Part 9
   62.     Part 10
   63.     Part 11
   64.     Dictionary
   65.     Schedule 1
   66.     Other
           Dictionary
           SCHEDULE 1
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3