Water Plan (Mary Basin) 2024
sec.53Water management protocol— Act , s 43
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sec.53 Water management protocol— Act , s 43
For section 43 (2) (l) of the Act , a water management protocol must be prepared for the plan area. The water management protocol must state the following matters for the plan area— the volumes of unallocated water reserved for stated purposes or stated locations; the process for releasing unallocated water held as an Indigenous reserve; the criteria and process for deciding applications for a seasonal water assignment; for water allocations managed under a resource operations licence—the water allocation dealing rules; for water entitlements and other authorisations to take unsupplemented water in a subcatchment—the water sharing rules; monitoring requirements for water and natural ecosystems in the plan area. (sec.53-ssec.1) For section 43 (2) (l) of the Act , a water management protocol must be prepared for the plan area. (sec.53-ssec.2) The water management protocol must state the following matters for the plan area— the volumes of unallocated water reserved for stated purposes or stated locations; the process for releasing unallocated water held as an Indigenous reserve; the criteria and process for deciding applications for a seasonal water assignment; for water allocations managed under a resource operations licence—the water allocation dealing rules; for water entitlements and other authorisations to take unsupplemented water in a subcatchment—the water sharing rules; monitoring requirements for water and natural ecosystems in the plan area.
- (a) the volumes of unallocated water reserved for stated purposes or stated locations;
- (b) the process for releasing unallocated water held as an Indigenous reserve;
- (c) the criteria and process for deciding applications for a seasonal water assignment;
- (d) for water allocations managed under a resource operations licence—the water allocation dealing rules;
- (e) for water entitlements and other authorisations to take unsupplemented water in a subcatchment—the water sharing rules;
- (f) monitoring requirements for water and natural ecosystems in the plan area.