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Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 97/154)
Character Range: 895933–899378

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Loxton Salt Interception Scheme                                                                                                                                             Eastern side of the River Murray between Lock & Weir No 4 to the North and Loxton to the South                              South Australia       BSMS works or measures
Groundwater pumping with disposal to Noora evaporation basin
Upper Darling Salt Interception Scheme                                                                                                                                      Northern New South Wales on the eastern side of the Darling River approximately 30 km downstream of the township of Bourke  New South Wales       BSMS works or measures
Groundwater pumping with disposal to Upper Darling SIS evaporation basin
Murtho Salt Interception Scheme                                                                                                                                             Eastern side of the River Murray between Lock and Weir 6 and the township of Paringa                                        South Australia       BSMS works or measures
Groundwater pumping with disposal to the Noora disposal basin

SCHEDULE C—APPLICATION OF AGREEMENT TO QUEENSLAND

Plan for the purposes of clause 40 of the Agreement

SCHEDULE D—TRANSFERRING WATER ENTITLEMENTS AND ALLOCATIONS
PART I—PRELIMINARY

    1. Purposes
        The purposes of this Schedule are, consistently with the laws of each State, the Agreement, the National Water Initiative, the Basin Plan and policies from time to time adopted by the Ministerial Council:
(a) to contribute to an efficient and effective water market by coordinating transfers of water entitlements and allocations described in clause 2 between States and between valleys within the Murray‑Darling Basin; and
(b) to set out principles for adjustments of intervalley and State transfer accounts; and
(c) to set out principles to be applied by the Authority, State Contracting Governments and licensing authorities to transfers of water entitlements and allocations described in clause 2; and
(d) to set out administrative and coordination arrangements, involving the Authority, State Contracting Governments and licensing authorities, to enable transfers of water entitlements and allocations described in clause 2 between States; and
(e) to allow Protocols to be made under this Schedule to supplement its provisions; and
(f) to require a State Contracting Government to notify the Authority of any intervalley transfer described in clause 2 made within that State.

    2. Application
Subject to the laws of each State, this Schedule applies to transfers, between States and between valleys within the Murray‑Darling Basin, of such water entitlements and allocations as are, from time to time, determined by the Ministerial Council and specified in Appendix 1, relating to water within:
(a) the upper River Murray and the River Murray in South Australia; and
(b) regulated reaches of the Goulburn, Broken, Campaspe, Loddon and Murrumbidgee river systems; and
(c) such other sources from time to time specified in Appendix 1,
        for the purposes of exchange rate trade or tagged trade (or both), as the Ministerial Council may determine from time to time.

    3. Definitions and interpretation
       (1) In this Schedule and any protocols made under it, save where inconsistent with the