New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE BARWON-DARLING UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2012

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 2 October 2020
- Reg 488 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.      Management zones
   6.      River sections
   7.      Understanding the rules in this Plan
   8.      Interpretation

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
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   9.      Vision statement
   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
   21.     Harvestable rights

           Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences

   22.     Share components of domestic and stock access licences
   23.     Share components of local water utility access licences
   24.     Share components of supplementary water (subcategory "Aboriginal environmental") access licences
   25.     Share components of unregulated river access licences
   26.     Share components of unregulated river (A Class) access licences
   27.     Share components of unregulated river (B Class) access licences
   28.     Share components of unregulated river (C Class) access licences
   29.     Share components of aquifer access licences
   30.     Share components of salinity and water table management access licences
   31.     Amendment of share components of access licences

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limits

   32.     General
   33.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   34.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   35.     Assessment of average annual extraction against the long-term average annual extraction limits
   36.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the Barwon-Darling Unregulated River Water Source
   37.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the Upper Darling Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   38.     General
   39.     Available water determinations

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

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules
           Note

   42.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Barwon-Darling Unregulated River Water Source
   43.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Upper Darling Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Flow classes and daily access rules
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   44.     General
   45.     Flow classes
   46.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   47.     Access for survival watering
   48.     Access for unregulated river (A Class) access licences when flows are imminent
   49.     Access for unregulated river (B Class) access licences when flows are imminent
   50.     Access rules for supplementary water (subcategory "Aboriginal environmental") access licences
   51.     Total daily extraction limits
   52.     Individual daily extraction limits

   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 for water supply works that take surface water

   53.     General
   54.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals

           Division 2 - Rules applying to the granting or amending of water supply work approvals for water supply works that take groundwater

   55.     General
   56.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   57.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   58.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent ecosystems
   59.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   60.     Replacement groundwater works

           Division 3 - Rules for the use of water supply works used to take groundwater

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

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   62.     General
   63.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   64.     Assignment of rights dealings (within water sources)
   65.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
   66.     Amendment of extraction component dealings
   67.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   68.     Interstate transfer of access licences and assignment of water allocation
   69.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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           Division 1 - General

   70.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   71.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   72.     General
   73.     Water supply works authorised to take water from the Upper Darling Alluvial Groundwater Source

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   74.     General
   75.     Part 1
   76.     Part 4
   77.     Part 6
   78.     Part 8
   79.     Part 9
   80.     Part 10
   81.     Part 11
   82.     Dictionary
   83.     Schedules
   84.     Other
           Dictionary
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 2A
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           SCHEDULE 7
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3