New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE SOUTH COAST GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2016

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 July 2016
- Reg 380 of 2016

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
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   1.      Name of Plan
   2.      Nature and status of Plan
   3.      Commencement
   4.      Application of Plan
   5.      Understanding the rules in this Plan
   6.      Interpretation

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
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   7.      Vision statement
   8.      Acknowledgement
   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
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   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

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER
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           Division 1 - Long-term extraction limits

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

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   28.     General
   29.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   30.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   31.     Available water determinations for aquifer access licences
   32.     Available water determinations for supplementary water (subcategory "storage") access licences

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

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
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   35.     Individual access licence account management rules

   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

   36.     General
   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 groundwater dependent ecosystems
   40.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   41.     Replacement groundwater works

           Division 2 - Rules for the use of water supply works

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

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   43.     General
   44.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   45.     Amendment of share components dealings (change of water source)
   46.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   47.     Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
   48.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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           Division 1 - General

   49.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   50.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   51.     General

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   52.     General
   53.     Part 1
   54.     Part 4
   55.     Part 6
   56.     Part 7
   57.     Part 8
   58.     Part 9
   59.     Part 11
   60.     Dictionary
   61.     Schedule
   62.     Other
           Dictionary
           SCHEDULE 1
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3
           APPENDIX 4