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form initially assessed under this clause may be used temporarily for the purposes of this Schedule until any modification to the model agreed upon or determined under paragraph 38(5)(b) (as the case requires) has been:
(a) made by the Authority or the relevant Government; and
(b) approved by the Authority.
       (8) When an alteration to a model:
(a) is approved under paragraph 38(5)(a); or
(b) modified under sub‑clause 38(6),
        the relevant model is altered accordingly.
PART IX—PROTOCOLS AND BSM PROCEDURES

    40. Authority's power to make protocols
       (1) The Authority may, in consultation with the Committee, from time to time make, amend or revoke such protocols as it considers necessary, desirable or convenient to give effect to this Schedule.
       (2) The Authority must notify each Contracting Government:
(a) whenever it is considering making, amending or revoking a protocol; and
(b) of the subject matter of the proposed protocol or amendment.
       (3) A Contracting Government may nominate a person with relevant expertise and experience to give advice to the Authority in developing the proposed protocol or amendment.
       (4) The Authority must consider any advice given by any person nominated under sub‑clause 40(3), before it adopts the proposed protocol or amendment.
       (5) Protocols made under this clause must not be inconsistent with any provision of the Agreement (including its Schedules) and are void to the extent of any inconsistency.
       (6) The Authority may not delegate any power conferred on it by sub‑clause 40(1).

    40A. BSM procedures
       (1) The Committee may, from time to time, make, amend or revoke such procedures (BSM procedures) as it considers necessary, desirable or convenient to give effect to this Schedule.
       (2) BSM procedures must not be inconsistent with any provision of the Agreement (including its Schedules) and are of no effect to the extent of any inconsistency.
       (3) The Authority must publish BSM procedures on its website.

    41. Matters that may be dealt with in BSM procedures
Without limiting subclause 40A(1), the Committee may make any BSM procedures as follows:
(a) about assessing Proposals;
(b) about the nature and form of information which a State Contracting Government must give to the Authority to enable it to estimate salinity impacts;
(c) establishing a common method to be used to estimate the salinity impacts of both any Proposal and any Accountable Action;
(d) establishing a method, using Baseline Conditions, to estimate Delayed salinity impacts;
(e) establishing a method to determine any salinity credits or salinity debits arising from a salinity impact;
(f) for administering Register A and Register B, including:
              (i) deciding whether an Accountable Action should be entered on Register A or Register B;
              (ii) how to estimate the salinity impact of an action;
              (iii) how any salinity credits