Water Management (General) Amendment (Floodplains) Regulation 2016 (NSW)

New South Wales

Water Management (General) Amendment

(Floodplains) Regulation 2016

under the

Water Management Act 2000

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Water Management Act 2000.

NIALL BLAIR, MLC

Minister for Lands and Water

Explanatory note
The objects of this Regulation are as follows:

(a)	to enable certain land that was designated as a floodplain under the Water Act 1912 and taken to be a floodplain under the Water Management Act 2000 (the principal Act) to cease to be taken to be that floodplain if it is later declared under the principal Act to be, or to form part of, another floodplain,
(b)	to declare certain land to be the Gwydir Valley Floodplain for the purposes of the principal Act.

This Regulation is made under the Water Management Act 2000, including section 400 (the general regulation-making power), the definition of floodplain in the Dictionary to the Act and clause 12 of Schedule 9 (Savings, transitional and other provisions) to the Act.

Water Management (General) Amendment (Floodplains)

Regulation 2016

under the

Water Management Act 2000

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Water Management (General) Amendment (Floodplains)
Regulation 2016.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

Schedule 1 Amendment of Water Management (General)
Regulation 2011

[1]      Clause 226AA

Insert after clause 226:

226AA

Land declared to be a floodplain

(1)	For the purposes of the definition of floodplain in the Dictionary to the Act, the land shown edged in heavy black on the map in Part 1 of Schedule 7A is declared to be the Gwydir Valley Floodplain.
(2)	For the purposes of clause 12 of Schedule 9 to the Act, land to which that clause applies ceases to be taken to be a floodplain under that clause on the land being declared under the Act to be, or to be part of, another floodplain.

[2]      Schedule 7A

Insert after Schedule 7:

Schedule 7A Floodplains

(Clause 226AA)

Part 1 Gwydir Valley Floodplain