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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE NSW GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN SHALLOW GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2011

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 28 June 2019
- Reg 575 of 2011

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
   Note

   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
   Note

   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
   Note

   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

           Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences

   19.     Share component of domestic and stock access licences
   20.     Share component of local water utility access licences
   21.     Share component of aquifer access licences

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   22.     General
   23.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   24.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   25.     Assessment of average annual extraction against the long term average annual extraction limits
   26.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   27.     General
   28.     Available water determinations

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   29.     Specific purpose access licences
   30.     Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   31.     General
   32.     Individual access licence account management rules

   PART 9 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
   Note

   33.     General
   34.     Rules for amending water supply work approvals for replacement groundwater works
   35.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   36.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   37.     Rules for water supply works located near sensitive environmental areas
   38.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   39.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   40.     General
   41.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   42.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of groundwater source)
   43.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   44.     Interstate transfer of access licences and assignment of water allocation
   45.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

           Division 1 - General

   46.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   47.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   48.     General

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   49.     General
   50.     Part 1
   51.     Part 4
   52.     Part 6
   53.     Part 8
   54.     Part 9
   55.     Part 11
   56.     Schedules
   57.     Other
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3


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