Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:schedule:1:p140
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 140/154)
Character Range: 1010647–1013387

the matter to the Committee.
       (2) Subclauses 33 (5) to 33 (8) of the Agreement apply to any matter referred to the Committee under subclause (1) as if it were a matter referred by the Authority under subclause 33 (5) of the Agreement.

    9. When deferred water is stored
       (1) The Committee member for South Australia may request the Authority in writing to reduce the quantity of water that it would otherwise receive in any month under the Agreement, by a volume to be designated as deferred water under this Schedule.
       (2) If a request made under subclause (1) is not in accordance with the Plan approved under clause 7, the request must be taken to be a proposal for a departure from arrangements mentioned in that Plan, made under paragraph 7 (9) (b) and dealt with accordingly.
       (3) If a request made under subclause (1) is either:
(a) in accordance with the Plan; or
(b) approved as a departure from the Plan;
       the volume mentioned in subclause (1) becomes deferred water for this Schedule at the time when the reduced quantity of water is released for delivery to South Australia.

    10. Where deferred water may be stored
       (1) South Australia may store deferred water within the unused capacity of one or more major storages.
       (2) Subject to subclauses (3) and (4), any deferred water stored after the date this Schedule comes into effect must initially be held in the major storage from which the Authority determines that water would have been supplied, if its delivery had not been deferred.
       (3) If the source of any deferred water stored after the date this Schedule comes into effect is a tributary of the River Murray downstream of Hume Dam, the deferred water must initially be held in Lake Victoria.
       (4) Subclauses (2) and (3) apply whether the deferred water is either:
(a) part of South Australia's entitlement under clause 88 of the Agreement, that is stored under clause 91 of the Agreement; or
(b) allocations acquired for use in South Australia from within an upper State.

    11. Transferring deferred water downstream
       (1) Subject to subclauses (5) and (6), the Authority must transfer deferred water from an upstream major storage to a downstream major storage in accordance with those provisions of a Plan, or approved departure from a Plan, that apply during minimum inflow conditions, or other inflow conditions specified in the Plan.
       (2) Despite subclause (1) but subject to subclauses (5) and (6), the Authority may transfer deferred water from an upstream major storage to a downstream major storage at any time, at the request of the Committee member for South Australia.
       (3) Despite subclause (1) but subject to subclauses (5)