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

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 2 October 2020
- Reg 493 of 2012

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.      Extraction management unit for these water sources
   7.      Understanding the rules in this Plan
   8.      Interpretation

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

   9.      Vision statement
   9A.     Acknowledgement
   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
   Note

   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 unregulated river (special additional high flow) access licences
   26.     Share components of aquifer access licences
   27.     Share components of aquifer (general security) access licences

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER
   Note

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limits

   28.     General
   29.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   30.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   31.     Assessment of average annual extractions against long-term average annual extraction limits
   32.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits for the EMU
   33.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits for the Namoi Alluvial Groundwater Sources

           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 unregulated river (special additional high flow) access licences
   39.     Available water determinations for aquifer access licences
   40.     Available water determinations for aquifer (general security) access licences

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   41.     Specific purpose access licences
   42.     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

   43.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Namoi Unregulated Rivers Water Sources
   44.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Namoi Alluvial Groundwater Sources

           Division 2 - Flow classes and daily access rules
           Note

   45.     General
   46.     Flow classes
   47.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   48.     Access rules for the taking of water from the Manilla Alluvial Groundwater Source
   49.     Total daily extraction limits
   50.     Individual daily extraction limits

   PART 9 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
   Note

           Division 1 - Rules applying to the granting or amending of water supply work approvals for water supply works that take surface water

   51.     General
   52.     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

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

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

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

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

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

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
   Note

           Division 1 - General

   68.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   69.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   70.     General
   71.     Water supply works authorised to take water from the Namoi Alluvial Groundwater Sources

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

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


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