Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:section:4:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 11/13)
Character Range: 57807–60558

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total Basin adjustment percentage has the meaning given by subsections 23A(5) and (6).
tradeable water rights means:
 (a) water access rights; or
 (b) water delivery rights; or
 (c) irrigation rights.
transitional asset has the meaning given by subsection 239C(3).
transitional instrument has the meaning given by subsection 239N(4).
transitional liability has the meaning given by subsection 239F(3).
transitional water resource plan has the meaning given by section 241.
Upper Murrumbidgee River means the waters of the Murrumbidgee River upstream of the Burrinjuck Dam.
water access entitlement means a perpetual or ongoing entitlement, by or under a law of a State, to exclusive access to a share of the water resources of a water resource plan area.
water access right:
 (a) means any right conferred by or under a law of a State to do either or both of the following:
 (i) to hold water from a water resource;
 (ii) to take water from a water resource; and
 (b) without limiting paragraph (a), includes the following rights of the kind referred to in that paragraph:
 (i) stock and domestic rights;
 (ii) riparian rights;
 (iii) a water access entitlement;
 (iv) a water allocation; and
 (c) includes any other right in relation to the taking or use of water that is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.
water accounting period for a water resource plan area has the meaning given by item 2 of the table in subsection 22(1).
water allocation means the specific volume of water allocated to water access entitlements in a given water accounting period.
water charge rules has the meaning given by section 92.
water charging objectives and principles means the objectives set out in Schedule 2.
watercourse:
 (a) means a river, creek or other natural watercourse (whether modified or not) in which water is contained or flows (whether permanently or from time to time); and
 (b) includes:
 (i) a dam or reservoir that collects water flowing in a watercourse; and
 (ii) a lake or wetland through which water flows; and
 (iii) a channel into which the water of a watercourse has been diverted; and
 (iv) part of a watercourse; and
 (v) an estuary through which water flows.
water delivery right means a right to have water delivered by an infrastructure operator.
water‑dependent ecosystem means a surface water ecosystem or a ground water ecosystem, and its natural components and processes, that depends on periodic or sustained inundation, waterlogging or significant inputs of water for its ecological integrity and includes an ecosystem associated with:
 (a) a wetland; or
 (b) a stream and its floodplain; or
 (c) a lake or a body of water (whether fresh or saline); or
 (d)