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relevant model is altered accordingly.

    39. Review of Models

       (1) A State Contracting Government must:

(a) review any model, and any amended model, developed by it and approved by the Authority, before 31 December 2014 and thereafter at intervals of not more than 7 years; and

(b) propose any amendment to a model, or amended model, which that review identifies as appropriate.

       (2) The Authority must:

(a) review any model, and any amended model, developed by it, or developed by the Commission for the purposes of the former Schedule and in operation immediately prior to commencement of this Schedule, before 31 December 2014 and thereafter at intervals of not more than 7 years; and

(b) propose any amendment to a model, or amended model, which that review identifies as appropriate.

PART IX — PROTOCOLS

    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) or clause 41.

    41. Examples of possible protocols

Without limiting sub‑clause 40(1), the Authority may make protocols:

(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, for the purposes of Register B;
(iii) how any salinity credits or salinity debits are to be apportioned between, and attributed to, Contracting Governments;

(g) about