Part 1 Introduction

1 Name of Plan

2 Nature and status of this Plan

3 Date of commencement

4 Area to which this Plan applies

5 Waters to which this plan applies

6 Interpretation

7 Effect on licences, authorities and permits under the Water Act 1912

8 State Water Management Outcomes Plan

Part 2 Vision, objectives, strategies and performance indicators

9 Vision, objectives, strategies and performance indicators

10 Vision

11 Objectives

12 Strategies

13 Performance indicators

Part 3 Basis for water sharing

14 Basis for water sharing

15 Climatic variability

16 Recharge

Part 4 Environmental water provisions

17 Environmental water provisions

18 Planned environmental water

19 (Repealed)

20 Adaptive environmental water

Part 5 Basic landholder rights

21 Basic landholder rights

22 Domestic and stock rights

23 Native title rights

Part 6 Bulk access regime

24 Bulk access regime

Part 7 Requirements for water for extraction under access licences

25 Requirements for water under access licences

25A Share components of domestic and stock access licences

25B Share components of local water utility access licences

25C Share components of aquifer access licences

25D Share components of supplementary water access licences

25E Changes to share components

Part 8 Rules for granting access licences

26 Rules for granting access licences

Part 9 Limit to the availability of water

Division 1 Long-term average extraction limit

27 Extraction limit

28 Variation of extraction limits

28A Compliance with the extraction limit

Division 2 Available water determinations

29 Available water determinations

Part 10 Rules for managing access licences

Division 1 General

30 Rules for managing access licences

Division 2 Water allocation account management

31 Water allocation account management

32 Water allocation accounts

33 Accrual of water allocations

34 Annual accounting for water extraction

Division 3 Management of local impacts

35 Management of local impacts

36 Extraction interference between neighbouring bores

37 Water level management

38 Water quality management

39 Protection of groundwater dependent ecosystems

40 Protection of aquifer integrity

41 Extraction Restrictions

42 Group registration

43 Infrastructure failure

Part 11 Access licence dealing rules

44 Access licence dealing rules

45 Rules relating to constraints within a groundwater source

46 Rules for change of water source

47 Rules for conversion of access licence category

48 Rules for interstate access licence transfer

49 Rules for water allocation assignments between water sources

50 Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

Part 12 Mandatory conditions

51 Mandatory conditions on access licences

52 Access licence conditions

53 Mandatory conditions on water supply work (bore) approvals

Part 13 Monitoring and reporting

54 Monitoring

Part 14 Amendment of this Plan

55 Amendment of this Plan

56 Amendment relating to planned environmental water

Schedule 1 Dictionary

Schedule 2 Lower Gwydir Groundwater Source

Schedule 3 Contribution to relevant targets in the December 2002 State Water Management Outcomes Plan

Schedule 4 Special access licence rules and conditions

Schedule 5 High priority groundwater dependant ecosystems

Schedule 6 Aquifer access licence share component

Appendix 1 Gwydir and Border Rivers Water Management Areas

Appendix 2 Location of maps

Appendix 3 Performance indicators

Appendix 4 Calculation of domestic and stock rights

Appendix 5 Rules for determining History of Extraction

Historical notes