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respect to any implementation obligation the Basin Plan purports to impose onto that Basin State.
(2) The Authority must consult the Commonwealth and other Basin States in relation to such an agreement.
(3) The Authority and a Basin State must use their best endeavours to enter into any such agreement within 2 years after the commencement of the Basin Plan.
(4) Any agreement must be developed having regard to:
            (a) any relevant agreement made, or in the process of being made, with another Basin State; and
            (b) any relevant circumstances of the Basin State; and
            (c) any relevant Commonwealth‑State agreements, including funding agreements.
(5) The Authority must publish an agreement under this section on its website.
Note: Entry into an agreement, or a failure to enter into an agreement, does not affect the commencement or operation of the Basin Plan.

        Chapter 2—Basin water resources and the context for their use

2.01 Description located in Schedule 1
The description of the Basin water resources and the context in which those resources are used (item 1 of the table in subsection 22(1) of the Act) is set out in Schedule 1.

        Chapter 3—Water resource plan areas and water accounting periods

        Part 1—Preliminary

3.01 Simplified outline
(1) This section sets out a simplified outline of this Chapter.
(2) Part 2 identifies the particular areas that are to be water resource plan areas (item 2 of the table in subsection 22(1) of the Act).
Note:  A map of the water resource plan areas can be obtained from the Authority's website.
(3) Part 3 identifies the periods that are to be the water accounting periods for each of those water resource plan areas (item 2 of the table in subsection 22(1) of the Act).

3.02 Time at which area becomes water resource plan area
An area identified in Part 2 as a water resource plan area becomes a water resource plan area on the commencement of the Basin Plan.

3.03 Datasets for identification of water resource plan areas
(1) A reference in section 3.05 to an area of a particular name is a reference to the area within the polygon of that name specified in the dataset that:
            (a) is titled Murray‑Darling Basin Water Resource Plan Areas—Surface Water; and
            (b) has a dataset scale of 1:250,000; and
            (c) is held by the Authority on 14 November 2017.
(2) A reference in section 3.06 to an area of a particular name is a reference to the area within the polygon of that name specified in the dataset that:
            (a) is titled Murray‑Darling Basin Water Resource Plan Areas—Groundwater; and
            (b) has a dataset scale of 1:250,000; and
            (c) is held by the Authority on 14 November 2017.