Water Management (General) Amendment (Upper Namoi Floodplain) Regulation 2019 (NSW)

New South Wales

Water Management (General) Amendment

(Upper Namoi Floodplain) Regulation 2019

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.

MELINDA PAVEY, MP

Minister administering the Water Management Act 2000

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to declare certain land to be the Upper Namoi Valley Floodplain for the purposes of the Water Management Act 2000.

This Regulation is made under the Water Management Act 2000, including section 400 (the general regulation-making power) and the definition of floodplain in the Dictionary.

Water Management (General) Amendment (Upper Namoi Floodplain) Regulation 2019 [NSW]

Water Management (General) Amendment (Upper Namoi

Floodplain) Regulation 2019

under the

Water Management Act 2000

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Water Management (General) Amendment (Upper Namoi

Floodplain) Regulation 2019.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 31 May 2019 and is required to be published on the

NSW legislation website.*

* The Regulation (statutory rule) specified 31 May 2019 as the date of commencement.

Pursuant to section 39 (2A) of the Interpretation Act 1987, the Regulation is not invalid

merely because the Regulation was published on the NSW legislation website after the day on

which one or more of its provisions is or are expressed to commence but provides, in that case,

for that or those provisions to commence on the day on which is it published on the NSW

legislation website, instead of on the earlier day.

Water Management (General) Amendment (Upper Namoi Floodplain) Regulation 2019 [NSW]

Schedule 1 Amendment of Water Management (General) Regulation 2018

Schedule 1	Amendment of Water Management (General)
Regulation 2018

[1]      Clause 252 Land declared to be a floodplain

Insert at the end of clause 252 (1) (b):

, and

(c) the land shown shaded grey or blue (including any part of the shaded area marked as road, rail, river or creek) on the map in Part 3 of Schedule 6 is declared to be the Upper Namoi Valley Floodplain.

[2]      Schedule 6 Floodplain

Insert after Part 2:

Water Management (General) Amendment (Upper Namoi Floodplain) Regulation 2019 [NSW]

Schedule 1 Amendment of Water Management (General) Regulation 2018

Part 3 Upper Namoi Valley Floodplain