Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760:front:0:p54
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760
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Character Range: 146108–149282

HEW entitlements for each affected unit at a particular time is a decrease in the SDL for the unit equal to the quantity of water, in GL per year, that is registered as being available under additional HEW entitlements for the unit.
Note 1: The additional HEW contributions are expected to vary over time as relevant water access rights, water delivery rights or irrigation rights are acquired.
Note 2: The Authority will use long‑term diversion limit equivalent factors to convert water access rights, water delivery rights and irrigation rights into a common unit for the purpose of the determinations.
(2) In this section, registered means shown on the register maintained under section 7.13.

7.17 Ensuring that criteria for amounts of adjustments are satisfied
(1) If, after calculating the total supply and efficiency contributions under sections 7.15 and 7.16, the Authority is not satisfied that a determination of proposed adjustments based on those amounts, disregarding the additional HEW entitlements mentioned in paragraph 7.11(1)(d), could be made under this Division that satisfies the criteria below, the Authority may reduce the total supply contribution, or the efficiency contribution for any affected unit, to a level at which such a determination could be made.
(2) The applicable criteria are the following:

Equivalent environmental outcomes
            (a) The supply contributions to the proposed adjustments achieve equivalent environmental outcomes compared with the benchmark environmental outcomes.

Neutral or improved socio‑economic outcomes
            (b) The efficiency contributions to the proposed adjustments achieve neutral or improved socio‑economic outcomes compared with the outcomes under benchmark conditions of development as evidenced by:
                (i) the participation of consumptive water users in projects that recover water through works to improve irrigation water use efficiency on their farms; or
                 (ia) the participation of consumptive water users in projects that recover water through works to improve water use efficiency off‑farm; or
                (ii) alternative arrangements proposed by a Basin State, assessed by that State as achieving water recovery with neutral or improved socio‑economic outcomes.

Use of approval process
            (c) Any processes approved by the Murray‑Darling Basin Ministerial Council for developing initiatives for satisfying these criteria, including opportunities for public consultation, have been observed.

7.18 Apportionment of supply contribution to affected units
The Authority must apportion the total supply contribution for the notified supply measures and additional supply measures to give each affected unit a supply contribution in a way that:
            (a) ensures that the sum of the supply contributions is the total supply contribution; and
            (b) complies with any agreement relating to the apportionment of supply contributions that has been reached by the Commonwealth and States.

7.19 Overall limitation on size of adjustment amounts
If, at a particular time before the commencement of any adjustments proposed under section