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(b) provides, as far as practicable, a common approach across river systems and jurisdictions including, but not limited to, in relation to:
                (i) reporting, transparency and public accountability; and
                (ii) program implementation and governance including regulatory approvals; and
                (iii) supporting the acceleration of constraint measures by 31 December 2026; and
                (iv) managing impacts on third parties.
(2) The Authority must prepare a roadmap for the purpose of achieving the object of this section by 31 December 2024.
(3) The roadmap, and any substantive amendments to the roadmap, must be prepared in consultation with the Basin States, the Commonwealth and the public.
(4) The Authority must publish the roadmap on its website.

7.08B  Minister may specify additional HEW entitlements
(1) The Minister may specify in a written instrument given to the Authority, in accordance with this section, that a water access right, a water delivery right, or an irrigation right, for a surface water SDL resource unit, or part of such a right, is an additional HEW entitlement.
Note: Under subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, such a specification may be revoked, amended or varied in the same way.
(2) The right, or the part of the right, must:
            (a) be sourced from the unit; and
            (b) be held environmental water; and
            (c) if specified after 31 December 2027—have become, or been contracted to become, held environmental water before that date; and
            (d) not have become held environmental water as a result of notified efficiency measures or additional efficiency measures, except as provided in subsection (4).
Note: Water access rights, water delivery rights and irrigation rights are types of rights that fall within the definition of held environmental water (see subsection 4(1) of the Act).
(3) The Minister must be satisfied that the right or the part of the right:
            (a) decreases the amount of water taken for consumptive use relative to the benchmark conditions of development; and
            (b) increases the volume of the Basin water resources that is available for environmental use; and
            (c) will contribute to enhancing environmental outcomes as mentioned in subsection 86AA(1) of the Act, including the outcomes set out in Schedule 5 to the Basin Plan.
(4) For paragraph (2)(d), the exception is that:
            (a) the right, or the part of the right, is specified after 31 December 2026; and
            (b) it was not included in the determination for paragraph 7.21(2)(a) (whether or not it was on the register mentioned in section 7.13 on 31 December 2026).
(5) If a right, or a part of a right, specified in reliance on subsection (4) was an efficiency entitlement or additional efficiency entitlement, it ceases to be an entitlement of that kind.

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