Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2008A00139:schedule:1:p8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2008A00139
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 8/128)
Character Range: 101373–104149

of the whole of that work; or
              (iii) work to remedy the extraordinary failure of part or all of that work.
"major storages" means Lake Victoria, the Menindee Lakes Storage and the storages formed by Dartmouth Dam and Hume Dam.
"measures" includes strategies, plans and programs (including any activities for the purpose of conserving or enhancing the environment) but does not include any river operations.
"minimum operating level" means the water level in a storage, as determined from time to time by the Ministerial Council, below which water must not be released.
"Minister" means a Minister of a Contracting Government who has been appointed to the Ministerial Council by that Contracting Government under clause 8.
"Ministerial Council" means the Ministerial Council established by Part III.
"Murray‑Darling Basin" has the meaning given by the Water Act.
"Murray‑Darling Basin Special Account" means the special account of the Authority established under Part 9 Division 5 of the Water Act.
"natural flow" means the quantity of water that would have flowed in a river past a particular point in a particular period but for the effect during that period of diversions to or from, and impoundments on, the river upstream of that point.
"officer" means a person who is a member of the staff of the Authority within the meaning of the Water Act.
"period of special accounting" means a period of special accounting declared under clause 123(1).
"prescribed rate" means either:

(a) a rate of 2% per annum above the maximum overdraft rate fixed by the Reserve Bank of Australia for amounts of $100,000 or less which is applicable at the time a payment becomes due, or, if no such rate is fixed;

(b) a rate of 4% per annum above the rate payable on Commonwealth securities of the longest term offered for public subscription in Australia for the Commonwealth cash loan opened next before the time a payment becomes due.

"public authority" means a body, whether incorporated or not, established for a public purpose by or under a law of the Commonwealth or a State and includes any local government body.
"regulated flow" is the flow resulting from the release of stored water at the direction of the Authority other than during, or in anticipation of, floods.
"reserve" means water available for release from major storages at the direction of the Authority.
"river" and "tributary" respectively include any affluent, effluent creek, anabranch or extension of, and any lake or lagoon connected with, the river or tributary.
"river operations" means activities under this Agreement relating to:

(a) the construction, operation, maintenance and renewal of works on, adjacent to, or connected to the upper River Murray or the River Murray in South Australia; and