Water Amendment (Interactions with State Laws) Regulation 2015 (No. 2) (Cth)

Water Amendment (Interactions with State Laws) Regulation 2015 (No. 2)

Select Legislative Instrument No. 98, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 25 June 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Bob Baldwin

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment

Contents

1............ Name.................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................ 1

4............ Schedules............................................................................................ 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                            2

Water Regulations 2008                                                                          2

1Name

This is the Water Amendment (Interactions with State Laws) Regulation 2015 (No. 2).

2Commencement

(1)Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	1 July 2015.	1 July 2015

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Water Act 2007.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Water Regulations 2008

1  Clause 1AA of Part 1 of Schedule 5 (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

New South Wales—State plans that prevail over Basin Plan
Item	State plan	Water resource plan area	Start day	End day	Accreditation day
1	Water Sharing Plan for the Adelong Creek Water Source 2003 (NSW)	Murrumbidgee	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	1 January 2014
2	Water Sharing Plan for the Castlereagh River above Binnaway Water Source 2003 (NSW)	Macquarie‑ Castlereagh	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	1 January 2014
3	Water Sharing Plan for the Gwydir Regulated River Water Source 2002 (NSW)	Gwydir	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	26 September 2014
4	Water Sharing Plan for the Lachlan Regulated River Water Source 2003 (NSW)	Lachlan	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	17 September 2014
5	Water Sharing Plan for the Lower Lachlan Groundwater Source 2003 (NSW)	Lachlan Alluvium	1 July 2015	30 June 2017	1 January 2014
6	Water Sharing Plan for the Macquarie and Cudgegong Regulated Rivers Water Source 2003 (NSW)	Macquarie‑ Castlereagh	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	26 September 2014
7	Water Sharing Plan for the Mandagery Creek Water Source 2003 (NSW)	Lachlan	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	1 January 2014
8	Water Sharing Plan for the Murrumbidgee Regulated River Water Source 2003 (NSW)	Murrumbidgee	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	17 September 2014
9	Water Sharing Plan for the NSW Border Rivers Regulated River Water Source 2009 (NSW)	New South Wales Border Rivers	1 July 2015	30 June 2019	22 February 2013
10	Water Sharing Plan for the New South Wales Murray and Lower Darling Regulated Rivers Water Sources 2003 (NSW)	New South Wales Murray and Lower Darling	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	17 September 2014
11	Water Sharing Plan for the Peel Valley Regulated, Unregulated, Alluvium and Fractured Rock Water Sources 2010 (NSW)	Each of the following water resource plan areas: (a) Namoi; (b) Namoi Alluvium; (c) New England Fractured Rock and Northern Basalts.	7 May 2015	30 June 2019	26 September 2014
12	Water Sharing Plan for the Phillips Creek, Mooki River, Quirindi Creek and Warrah Creek Water Sources 2003 (NSW)	Namoi	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	1 January 2014
13	Water Sharing Plan for the Rocky Creek, Cobbadah, Upper Horton and Lower Horton Water Source 2003 (NSW)	Gwydir	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	1 January 2014
14	Water Sharing Plan for the Tarcutta Creek Water Source 2003 (NSW)	Murrumbidgee	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	1 January 2014
15	Water Sharing Plan for the Tenterfield Creek Water Source 2003 (NSW)	New South Wales Border Rivers	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	1 January 2014
16	Water Sharing Plan for the Upper Billabong Water Source 2003 (NSW)	Murrumbidgee	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	1 January 2014
17	Water Sharing Plan for the Upper Namoi and Lower Namoi Regulated River Water Sources 2003 (NSW)	Namoi	1 July 2015	1 July 2016	17 September 2014

2  Clause 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 5 (cell at table item 7, column headed “End day”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

30 June 2019

3  Clause 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 5 (cell at table item 8, column headed “End day”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

30 June 2017