Water (Accredited Water Resource Plan—Darling Alluvium) Instrument 2023

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Water (Accredited Water Resource Plan—Darling Alluvium) Instrument 2023

I, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, make the following instrument.

Dated 22 June 2023   

Tanya Plibersek

Minister for the Environment and Water

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Accredited water resource plan

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Water (Accredited Water Resource Plan—Darling Alluvium) Instrument 2023.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 63 of the Water Act 2007.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 4 of the Act, including the following:

(a)      Authority;

(b)      Basin Plan;

(c)      water resource plan;

(d)      water resource plan area.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Water Act 2007.

5  Accredited water resource plan

(1)    For the purposes of subparagraph 63(5)(b)(i) of the Act, the proposed water resource plan for the Darling Alluvium water resource plan area specified in subsection (2) is accredited.

(2)    The plan is the document titled Darling Alluvium Water Resource Plan as in force on the day that this instrument is made, excluding any material identified as not forming part of the plan.

Note 1: The plan could in 2023 be accessed on the Authority website at www.mdba.gov.au.

Note 2: The plan meets the requirements that a water resource plan for a water resource plan area must comply with to be accredited: see table item 11 of subsection 22(1) of the Act and Chapter 10 of the Basin Plan.

Note 3: The accreditation of the plan ceases to have effect in accordance with the Act: see sections 54 and 64.