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or to apply to a specified extent or in specified circumstances; or
(c) the Ministerial Council:
              (i) must exercise a discretion provided in Division 1 of this Part in a specified way or at a specified time; or
              (ii) may make a determination about any matter the subject of a provision of Division 1 of this Part or Part XIV or Schedule F of this Agreement that is additional to, substituted for or contrary to the provision.
       (10) Schedule H, whether or not amended under this clause, must be prepared on the basis that the Contracting Governments have agreed as follows:
(a) that critical human water needs are the highest priority water use for communities who are dependent on Basin water resources;
(b) in particular that, to give effect to this priority, conveyance water required to meet critical human water needs will receive first priority from the water available in the River Murray System;
(c) that each State Contracting Government will be responsible for meeting critical human water needs in its State, and will decide how water from its entitlement is used.
       (11) After the Basin Plan takes effect, any amendment to Schedule H must have regard to the provisions of the Basin Plan and, in particular, to provisions required by Part 2A of the Water Act.
       (12) The Ministerial Council must review Schedule H:
(a) from time to time; and
(b) at least once for each period in which Division 3 of this Part applies.
       (13) The Authority must keep the separate accounts required to be kept by Schedule H.
       (14) The Authority:
(a) must prepare, and give to the Ministerial Council, draft rules to ensure that, subject to the storage rights of South Australia mentioned in paragraphs 130 (9) (a) and (b), each State is able to carry over a volume of water equivalent to 150% of its annual critical human water needs requirement; and
(b) may prepare, and give to the Ministerial Council, draft rules:
              (i) for the Authority to determine the worst‑case planning inflow sequence for Schedule H; and
              (ii) for the Committee to determine the volume of water that will be made available by any proposed remedial action under subclause 10 (8) of Schedule H; and
              (iii) otherwise to implement the provisions of Schedule H; and
(c) may prepare, and give to the Ministerial Council, draft amendments to any rules approved by the Ministerial Council under subclause (15).
       (15) The Ministerial Council may:
(a) approve any draft rules or amendments prepared under subclause (14), with or without amendments; or
(b) refer the draft rules or amendments back to the Authority for further consideration.
PART XIII—MENINDEE LAKES STORAGE

    136. Maintenance of Menindee Lakes Storage
New South