Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:section:21:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 21 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 98014–100215

the Basin water resources and the need to adapt management approaches to that diversity and variability;
 (iv) the management objectives of the Basin States for particular water resources;
 (v) social, cultural, Indigenous and other public benefit issues;
 (vi) broader regional natural resource management planning processes;
 (vii) the effect, or potential effect, of the Basin Plan on the use and management of water resources that are not Basin water resources;
 (viii) the effect, or the potential effect, of the use and management of water resources that are not Basin water resources on the use and management of the Basin water resources;
 (ix) the State water sharing arrangements;
 (x) any other arrangements between States for the sharing of water.
Note 1: Paragraph (b): the best available scientific knowledge includes the best available systems for accounting for water resources.
Note 2: An example of a management objective referred to in subparagraph (c)(iv) might be preservation of the natural values of a river system through no development or minimal development.
Note 3: See also subsection 25(3) (which deals with the water quality and salinity management plan).

Basin Plan not to reduce protection of planned environmental water provided for under existing State water management laws
 (5) The Basin Plan must ensure that there is no net reduction in the protection of planned environmental water from the protection provided for under the State water management law of a Basin State immediately before the Basin Plan first takes effect.

Basin Plan not to be inconsistent with Snowy Water Licence
 (6) The Basin Plan must not be inconsistent with the provisions of the licence issued under section 22 of the Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997 of New South Wales.
Note: The Basin Plan applies to all Basin waters, including the Upper Murrumbidgee River, except to the extent that the Basin Plan is inconsistent with the licence mentioned in this subsection.
 (7) In applying subsection (6), a variation of the licence after the commencement of Part 2 of this Act is to be disregarded unless the variation is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.