Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:schedule:1:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 7/154)
Character Range: 653604–656477

a year, means water set aside by the Authority to supply conveyance water for the following year, determined in accordance with clause 102D.
"conveyance water" has the meaning given by the Water Act.
"corporate plan" means a corporate plan approved under clause 34 and includes any amendment to that plan approved under clause 35.
"critical human water needs" has the meaning given by the Water Act.
"current conveyance water" means water to be used as conveyance water in the current year.
"deferred water" has the meaning given by Schedule G.
"diversions" includes abstractions, impoundings and appropriations of water that reduce the flow of a river.
"Doctors Point" means the location of the Doctors Point stream gauging station.
"E.C." means a unit of electro‑conductivity of water, measured in micro‑siemens per centimetre at 25 degrees Celsius.
"financial year" means the twelve months beginning on 1 July.
"former Agreement" has the same meaning as "former MDB Agreement" in the Water Act.
"former Ministerial Council" means the Ministerial Council under the former Agreement;
"Full Supply Level" means the full supply water level:
(a) defined by reference to Australian Height Datum specified by the design drawings for any structure subject to this Agreement; or
(b) in the case of Menindee Lakes Storage, as defined under clause 137.
"land" includes:
(a) Crown lands;
(b) buildings; and
(c) any interest, right or privilege in, over or affecting any land.
"maintenance" includes the execution of all work of any description which is necessary to keep an existing work in the state of utility in which it was upon:
(a) its original completion; or
(b) the completion of any improvement thereto or replacement thereof,
but does not include ‑
              (i) the execution of any improvement to the design or function of that work; or
              (ii) the replacement of the whole of that work; or
              (iii) work to remedy the extraordinary failure of part or all of that work.
"major storages" means Lake Victoria, the Menindee Lakes Storage and the storages formed by Dartmouth Dam and Hume Dam.
"measures" includes strategies, plans and programs (including any activities for the purpose of conserving or enhancing the environment) but does not include any river operations.
"minimum operating level" means the water level in a storage, as determined from time to time by the Ministerial Council, below which water must not be released.
"minimum reserve" has the meaning given by clause 103.
"Minister" means a Minister of a Contracting Government who has been appointed to the Ministerial Council by that Contracting Government under clause 8.
"Ministerial Council" means the Ministerial Council established by Part III.
"Murray‑Darling Basin" has the meaning given by the Water Act.
"Murray‑Darling Basin Special Account" means the special account