Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760:reg:2:p6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2 (pt 6/32)
Character Range: 241406–244222

plan must set out rules (including, if applicable, rules for water allocations) that ensure, as far as practicable, that the quantity of water actually taken from each SDL resource unit for consumptive use in a water accounting period that beginning on or after 1 July 2019 does not (after making any adjustments for the disposal or acquisition of held environmental water) exceed the unit's annual permitted take for the period.
Note 1: Water resource plans are not required to give effect to the long‑term average sustainable diversion limits until 1 July 2019. Compliance with the long‑term annual diversion limit will then be measured using the annual permitted take (see Part 4 of Chapter 6). The annual permitted take is defined in subsections 6.10(1) and 6.12B(1).
Note 2: Water allocations can be made during or before a water accounting period. The annual permitted take is usually worked out after the end of a water accounting period.

A water resource plan may provide for less water to be taken
(2) To avoid doubt, the rules may be designed to ensure that the quantity of water that is actually taken for consumptive use from an SDL resource unit in a water accounting period is less than the annual permitted take.

10.12 Matters relating to accounting for water
(1) For paragraph 10.10(3)(a), the following matters must be accounted for:
            (a) all forms of take from the SDL resource unit and all classes of water access right;
            (b) water allocations that are determined in one water accounting period and used in another, including water allocations that are carried over from one water accounting period to the next;
            (c) for a surface water SDL resource unit—return flows, in a way that is consistent with arrangements under the Agreement immediately before the commencement of the Basin Plan;
            (d) subject to subsection (3)—trade of water access rights;
            (e) water resources which have a significant hydrological connection to the water resources of the SDL resource unit;
            (f) circumstances in which there is a change in the way water is taken or held under a water access right;
            (g) changes over time in the extent to which water allocations in the unit are utilised;
Note: Paragraph (g) includes what is commonly known as a growth‑in‑use strategy.
            (h) water sourced from the Great Artesian Basin and released into a Basin water resource, by excluding that water;
            (i) water resources which are used for the purpose of managed aquifer recharge.
(2) Subject to this section, the method may account for other matters.
(3) For paragraph (1)(d), the water resource plan must account for the disposal and acquisition of held environmental water separately and in a way that does not affect the method