Water Management (General) Amendment (Paterson) Regulation 2007 (NSW)

2007 No 307

New South Wales

Water Management (General)

Amendment (Paterson) Regulation

2007

under the

Water Management Act 2000

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Water Management Act 2000.

PHILIP KOPERBERG, M.P.,

Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Water

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to modify the provisions of Schedule 10 to the Water Management Act 2000 (Conversion of former entitlements to access licences and approvals) in relation to the access licences that arise under that Schedule as a consequence of a proclamation under section 55A of that Act that extends the operation of Part 2 of Chapter 3 of that Act to the Paterson Regulated River Water Source.

This Regulation is made under the Water Management Act 2000, including section 400 (the general power to make regulations) and clause 1 of Schedule 9 (the power to make regulations of a savings or transitional nature).

Published in Gazette No 83 of 29 June 2007, page 4147	Page 1
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Clause 1	Water Management (General) Amendment (Paterson) Regulation 2007

Water Management (General) Amendment (Paterson)

Regulation 2007

under the

Water Management Act 2000

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Water Management (General) Amendment
(Paterson) Regulation 2007.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 July 2007.

3 Amendment of Water Management (General) Regulation 2004

The Water Management (General) Regulation 2004 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

2007 No 307

Water Management (General) Amendment (Paterson) Regulation 2007

Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment

(Clause 3)

Part 3 Access licences

Insert after Division 6:

Division 7	Replacement supplementary water access licences for Part 2 entitlements for the Paterson (1 July 2007)
29P	Supplementary water access licences
(1) On 1 July 2007, each section 18 entitlement and section 20B entitlement with respect to the Paterson is taken to have been replaced not only by the relevant access licence referred to in Schedule 11 to the Act but also by a supplementary water access licence with a share component equivalent to the greater of the following:

(a)	the greatest volume of water (in megalitres) taken in excess of the volume authorised by the entitlement in any water year between 1 July 1995 and 30 June 2005,
(b)	the greatest volume of water (in megalitres) taken pursuant to a relevant section 20AA direction in any water year between 1 July 1995 and 30 June 2005.
(2)	In this clause, a reference to the Paterson is a reference to the Paterson regulated river water source identified in the Water Sharing Plan for the Paterson Regulated River Water Source 2007, as in force on 1 July 2007.

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