Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2008A00139:schedule:1:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2008A00139
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 7/128)
Character Range: 98692–101612

the Water Act.
"Basin Plan" has the meaning given by the Water Act.
"Chief Executive" means the Chief Executive of the Authority.
"Commission" has the same meaning as "Murray‑Darling Basin Commission" under the Water Act.
"Committee" means the Basin Officials Committee established by Part IV.
"Committee member" means a Committee member for a State or for the Commonwealth, appointed in accordance with this Agreement.
"Constructing Authority" means:

(a) the Contracting Government by which:

              (i) any works authorised by this Agreement or the former Agreement have been, or are being, or are to be constructed;
              (ii) any measures authorised under this Agreement or the former Agreement have been, or are being, or are to be executed; or

(b) any public authority or any Minister constituted or appointed for the purpose of constructing such works or executing such measures.

"Contracting Government" means any of the Governments of the Commonwealth, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.
"conveyance water" has the meaning given by the Water Act.
"corporate plan" means a corporate plan approved under clause 34 and includes any amendment to that plan approved under clause 35.
"critical human water needs" has the meaning given by the Water Act.
"diversions" includes abstractions, impoundings and appropriations of water that reduce the flow of a river.
"Doctors Point" means the location of the Doctors Point stream gauging station.
"E.C." means a unit of electro‑conductivity of water, measured in micro‑siemens per centimetre at 25 degrees Celsius.
"financial year" means the twelve months beginning on 1 July.
"former Agreement" has the same meaning as "former MDB Agreement" in the Water Act.
"former Ministerial Council" means the Ministerial Council under the former Agreement;
"Full Supply Level" means the full supply water level:

(a) defined by reference to Australian Height Datum specified by the design drawings for any structure subject to this Agreement; or

(b) in the case of Menindee Lakes Storage, as defined under clause 137.

"land" includes:

(a) Crown lands;

(b) buildings; and

(c) any interest, right or privilege in, over or affecting any land.

"maintenance" includes the execution of all work of any description which is necessary to keep an existing work in the state of utility in which it was upon:

(a) its original completion; or

(b) the completion of any improvement thereto or replacement thereof,

but does not include ‑
              (i) the execution of any improvement to the design or function of that work; or
              (ii) the replacement 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.