Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:schedule:1:p88
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 88/154)
Character Range: 870001–872867

Plan, including the appropriateness of review periods.
       (3A) The Authority may, at any time, in consultation with the Contracting Governments, amend the terms of reference for an audit or assessment to include additional matters to be covered by the audit or assessment.
       (4) The independent auditors must, in each audit, reach a view by consensus about:
(a) the performance of each Contracting Government and of the Authority in implementing the provisions of this Schedule since the previous audit; and
(b) whether the Authority has fairly and accurately recorded the salinity impacts of each action entered in Register A or Register B.
       (5) The independent auditors must prepare a report setting out:
(a) the findings of each audit and assessment; and
(b) any recommendations made by the independent auditors arising from that audit or assessment.
       (6) Without limiting sub‑clause 34(5), a report:
(a) must set out the view reached on each of the matters referred to in sub‑clause 34(4); and
(b) may recommend to the Authority that the salinity impacts entered in Register A or Register B for an Accountable Action be varied; and
(c) may set out a finding that the total salinity credits are not equal to, or do not exceed, the total salinity debits attributed to a State Contracting Government in Register A, contrary to paragraph 16(1)(a).

    35. Review of Schedule
       (1) The Authority must prepare and give to the Ministerial Council a report on the operation of this Schedule as follows:
(a) at such times as the Committee directs;
(b) at any time the Authority considers appropriate.
       (2) Without limiting the contents of any report prepared under sub‑clause 35(1), the Authority may include in a report:
(a) a summary of:
              (i) the Delayed salinity impacts; and
              (ii) the salinity impacts of every Accountable Action undertaken before the date of the report,
 within the Murray‑Darling Basin, based on the reports prepared under clause 33 since the last report prepared under subclause 35(1); and
(b) a description of any additions to, or alterations of, the Joint Program proposed to ensure that the Basin Salinity Target is met, since the Authority's last report made under sub‑clause 35(1).
       (3) A report prepared under sub‑clause 35(1) may conclude that a Contracting Government has not complied with one or more of its obligations under this Schedule.

    35A. Review of the Basin Salinity Management 2030
       (1) The Authority must:
(a) by 31 December 2025—prepare, in consultation with Contracting Governments, a plan to review the Basin Salinity Management 2030; and
(b) by 31 December 2026—commence a review of the Basin Salinity Management 2030 in accordance with the plan.
       (2) The review must include a review of the following matters:
(a) matters required by any BSM