Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760:reg:2:p9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2 (pt 9/32)
Character Range: 248981–251914

use and management of water resources of the water resource plan area within the long‑term annual diversion limit for an SDL resource unit.

        Division 2—Surface water

10.17 Priority environmental assets and priority ecosystem functions
(1) A water resource plan must be prepared having regard to whether it is necessary for it to include rules which ensure that the operation of the plan does not compromise the meeting of environmental watering requirements of priority environmental assets and priority ecosystem functions.
Note: The environmental watering requirements of priority environmental assets and priority ecosystem functions will be set out in long‑term watering plans and may also be set out in the Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy. Long‑term watering plans are required to use the methods in Part 5 of Chapter 8 to identify those requirements.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), regard must be had to whether it is necessary for the rules to prescribe:
            (a) the times, places and rates at which water is permitted to be taken from a surface water SDL resource unit; and
            (b) how water resources in the water resource plan area must be managed and used.
(3) If the outcome of the requirement in subsection (1) is that such rules are necessary, the water resource plan must include those rules.

        Division 3—Groundwater

10.18 Priority environmental assets dependent on groundwater
(1) A water resource plan must be prepared having regard to whether it is necessary for it to include rules which ensure that, for priority environmental assets and priority ecosystem functions that depend on groundwater, the operation of the plan does not compromise the meeting of environmental watering requirements.
Note: The environmental watering requirements of priority environmental assets and priority ecosystem functions will be set out in long‑term watering plans and may also be set out in the Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy. Long‑term watering plans are required to use the methods in Part 5 of Chapter 8 to identify those requirements.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), regard must be had to whether it is necessary for the water resource plan to include rules that specify:
            (a) the times, places and rates at which water is permitted to be taken from a groundwater SDL resource unit; and
            (b) resource condition limits, being limits beyond which the taking of groundwater will, for a priority environmental asset that depends on groundwater, compromise an environmental watering requirement; and
            (c) restrictions on the water permitted to be taken (including the times, places and rates at which water may be taken) in order to prevent a resource condition limit from being exceeded.
(3) If the outcome of the requirement in subsection (1) is that such rules are necessary, the water resource plan must include those rules.