70   Individual daily extraction limits

(1)  At the commencement of this Plan, there are no individual daily extraction limits (hereafter IDELs) established for access licences in these water sources.

(2)  In the Upper Bega/Bemboka Rivers Water Source and the Mid Bega River Sands Water Source, if in the Minister’s opinion:

(a)  a holder of an access licence is not conforming to rostering arrangements established by the Bega Valley Water Users Association and approved by the Minister, or

(b)  a holder of an access licence does not want to participate in rostering arrangements established by the Bega Valley Water Users Association and approved by the Minister and has confirmed this in writing to the Minister,

      then the Minister may amend the extraction component of the access licence under section 68A of the Act to impose an IDEL.

(3)  The IDEL assigned under subclause (2) is to be in the same proportion that the share component for the access licence is to the share components of all access licences of that category in the respective water source.

(4)  Where an IDEL has been assigned to an access licence under subclause (2), that IDEL may be later removed from the access licence by the Minister at the written request of the access licence holder subject to the Minister being satisfied that the access licence holder will participate in rostering arrangements established by the Bega Valley Water Users Association and approved by the Minister.

(5)  If the Minister is satisfied that an assessment of daily extraction under access licences for which a TDEL is established and assigned under clauses 68 and 69 indicates that extraction under the access licences exceeds the TDEL, the Minister may amend the extraction component of an access licence under section 68A of the Act to impose an IDEL on any one or more of those access licences.

Note. Part 13 of this Plan allows for amendments to be made to establish and remove IDELs.