New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE NSW MURRAY DARLING BASIN POROUS ROCK GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2011

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 15 February 2013
- Reg 616 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.      Management zones
   6.      Understanding the rules in this Plan
   7.      Interpretation

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
   Note

   8.      Vision statement
   9.      Objectives
   10.     Strategies
   11.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   12.     Bulk access regime
   13.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - PLANNED ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
   Note

   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.     Application

           Division 2 - Requirements for water for basic landholder rights

   18.     Domestic and stock rights
   19.     Native title 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 aquifer access licences
   23.     Share components of salinity and water table management access licences

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term extraction limits

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

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   29.     General
   30.     Available water determinations

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   31.     Specific purpose access licences
   32.     Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   33.     General
   34.     Individual access licence account management rules

   PART 9 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
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   35.     General
   36.     Rules for amending water supply work approvals for replacement groundwater works
   37.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   38.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   39.     Rules for water supply works located near sensitive environmental areas
   40.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   41.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   42.     General
   43.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   44.     Assignment of rights dealings (within groundwater sources)
   45.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of groundwater source)
   46.     Amendment of extraction component dealings
   47.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   48.     Interstate transfer of access licences and assignment of water allocation
   49.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

           Division 1 - General

   50.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   51.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   52.     General

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   53.     General
   54.     Part 1
   55.     Part 4
   56.     Part 6
   57.     Part 8
   58.     Part 9
   59.     Part 11
   60.     Schedules
   61.     Other
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3