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9 Act to be administered in accordance with water management principles and State Water Management Outcomes Plan
> > (1) It is the duty of all persons exercising functions under this Act—
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> > > (a) to take all reasonable steps to do so in accordance with, and so as to promote, the water management principles of this Act, and
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> > > (b) as between the principles for water sharing set out in section 5 (3), to give priority to those principles in the order in which they are set out in that subsection.
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> > (2) It is the duty of all persons involved in the administration of this Act to exercise their functions under this Act in a manner that gives effect to the State Water Management Outcomes Plan.