43Order granting entitlement

43 Order granting entitlement

An Order granting an entitlement under this Division may specify in relation to the entitlement granted all or any of the following—

S. 43(a) amended by No. 62/1995 s. 12(a).

(a) a means of quantifying the amount of water, whether by volume or by reference to the level of flow at a specified point or by reference to a share of flow or storage or by any other means or combination of means, and if the amount of water is quantified by reference to a share of storage, then by reference, for example, to—

(i) the volumetric share of system capacity available to the Authority;

(ii) the share of inflow to the storage available to the Authority;

(iii) the volumetric share of releases from the storage available to the Authority;

(iv) the seepage and evaporative loss adjustments to be debited to the Authority;

(v) the share of inflow to be credited to the Authority when its share of storage capacity does not allow it to receive its full share of inflow;

S. 43(b) amended by No. 62/1995 s. 12(b).

(b) if the amount of water is quantified by reference to a share of flow, then by reference, for example, to the share of flow past a specified point;

S. 43(ba) inserted by No. 62/1995 s. 19.

(ba) if the amount of water is part of the bulk entitlement of another Authority, the circumstances in which that other Authority may exercise powers under section 141;

S. 43(bb) inserted by No. 62/1995 s. 19,
repealed by No. 32/2010 s. 28(a).

S. 43(c) amended by Nos 86/1995 s. 6, 99/2005 s. 17(a), 85/2006 s. 23.

(c) the obligations of the storage manager, the resource manager and the environmental manager;

(d) whether and, if so, in what manner and to what extent the entitlement is transferable;

S. 43(e) amended by Nos 50/1992 s. 6(3), 32/2010 s. 28(b).

(e) the financial obligations of the Authority (which may include the making of payments to another Authority);

(f) water accounting procedures (which may include the granting of credits to the Authority in respect of water returned to the source);

(g) a requirement that the Authority provide, install and maintain at its own expense metering equipment approved by the Minister;

(h) a requirement that the Authority carry out at its own expense a metering program approved by the Minister for the purpose of providing the Minister with the type of information specified in the Order at the times and in the form and manner specified in the Order;

S. 43(i) amended by No. 50/2010 s. 10.