Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:schedule:1:p49
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 49/154)
Character Range: 763404–766126

amounts determined for New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia in accordance with the Basin Plan.

    102B Setting aside water for Critical Human Water Needs
       (1) By 31 May in each year, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia must each tell the Authority what volume of water the State has set aside to meet critical human water needs in the following year, and the present location of that water.
       (2) Within 21 days after receiving information from a State under subclause (1), or a longer time agreed between the Authority and the State, the Authority must satisfy itself that the information given by the State is correct.
       (3) If the Authority is not satisfied that the information given by a State is correct, it must tell the State of that fact and of any correction proposed by the Authority.
       (4) If the State and the Authority fail to agree whether any, and if so what, correction is required within 14 days after the Authority has told the State under subclause (3), the Authority or the State may refer the matter to the Committee, which must determine the matter.

    102C Need for advances
       (1) From time to time during each year the Authority must, after allowing for the volume of current conveyance water, determine whether each State has sufficient water available for distribution to it to allocate at least the volume set aside by it under clause 102B for critical human water needs in the year.
       (2) If the Authority determines that a State does not have sufficient water available for subclause (1), it must tell the Committee:
(a) its estimate of the shortfall; and
(b) which State or States are appropriate to advance water towards meeting the shortfall; and
(c) the volume of the advance required from the State or States for the purpose.
       (3) The Committee may determine whether an advance is required from one or more of the States to meet any shortfall mentioned in subclause (2), and the volume of the advance.
       (4) If the Committee determines that an advance to a State is required under subclause (3), the Authority must, without increasing the total volume of water available for distribution:
(a) increase the water available for distribution to that State by the volume of the advance determined by the Committee; and
(b) decrease the water available for distribution to the other States by the same volume.

    102D Conveyance Reserve
       (1) At intervals no greater than once every 2 months, the Authority must determine the conveyance reserve to be held at the end of the following May, in accordance with this clause.
       (2) The conveyance reserve is the lesser of:
(a) the following:
              (i) before the