New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE LACHLAN UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2012

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 2 October 2020
- Reg 458 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.      Extraction management units for these water sources
   7.      Understanding the rules in this Plan
   8.      Interpretation

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
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   9.      Vision statement
   9A.     Acknowledgment
   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 unregulated river access licences
   25.     Share components of aquifer access licences
   26.     Share components of aquifer (high security) access licences

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER
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           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   27.     General
   28.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   29.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   30.     Assessment of average annual extractions against long-term average annual extraction limits
   31.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the EMU
   32.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the Belubula Valley Alluvial Groundwater Source
   33.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the Upper Lachlan Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   34.     General
   35.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   36.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   37.     Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
   38.     Available water determinations for aquifer access licences
   39.     Available water determinations for aquifer (high security) access licences

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
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   40.     Specific purpose access licence
   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
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   42.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Lachlan Unregulated Water Sources
   43.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Belubula Valley Alluvial Groundwater Source
   44.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Upper Lachlan Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Flow classes and daily access rules
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   45.     General
   46.     Flow classes
   47.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   48.     Access rules for unregulated river access licences on Booberoi Creek
   49.     Access rules for unregulated river access licences in the Unregulated Effluent Creeks Water Source
   50.     Total daily extraction limits
   51.     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

   52.     General
   53.     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

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

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

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

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

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

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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           Division 1 - General

   69.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
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   70.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
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   71.     General
   72.     Water supply works authorised to take water from the Belubula Valley Alluvial Groundwater Source and the Upper Lachlan Alluvial Groundwater Source

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   73.     General
   74.     Part 1
   74A.    Part 6
   75.     Part 8
   76.     Part 9
   77.     Part 11
   78.     Dictionary
   79.     Schedules
   80.     Other
           Dictionary
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3
           APPENDIX 4
           APPENDIX 5