Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760:reg:2:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2 (pt 4/32)
Character Range: 236450–239300

undertaking that measure or action.

10.07 Consultation to be demonstrated
(1) A water resource plan prepared by a Basin State must contain a description of the consultation in relation to the plan (including in relation to any part of the plan), if any, that was undertaken before the State gave the plan to the Authority under subsection 63(1) of the Act.
Note: A water resource plan prepared by the Authority and adopted under section 69 of the Act is a legislative instrument. The Legislative Instruments Act 2003 requires that the explanatory statements for such plans describe the consultation undertaken in relation to the plans.
(2) If a water resource plan is amended in accordance with section 65 of the Act, the plan must contain a description of the consultation in relation to the amendment, if any, that was undertaken before the relevant Basin State gave the proposed amendment to the Authority under subsection 65(2) of the Act.

        Part 3—Incorporation and application of long‑term annual diversion limit

        Division 1—Water access rights

10.08 Water access rights must be identified
(1) A water resource plan must identify the following:
            (a) each form of take from each SDL resource unit in the water resource plan area;
            (b) any classes of water access right that apply to the forms of take identified under paragraph (a);
            (c) the characteristics of each class of right including, where appropriate, the number of rights and any conditions on the exercise of the rights.
(2) A water resource plan must require a holder of a water access right to comply with the conditions of that right.

10.09 Identification of planned environmental water and register of held environmental water
(1) A water resource plan must identify the planned environmental water in the water resource plan area and associated rules and arrangements relating to that water.
(2) A water resource plan must provide for the establishment and maintenance of a register, to be published on a website specified by the plan, of held environmental water for the water resource plan area which records:
            (a) the characteristics of held environmental water in the water resource plan area (for example, quantity, reliability, security class, licence type, limitations); and
            (b) who holds that water.
(3) Subsection (2) is satisfied if the plan identifies a register of held environmental water which records the matters required by subsection (2) and is published on a website.

        Division 2—Take for consumptive use
Note: This Division sets out the principal provisions for how a water resource plan incorporates and applies the SDL for each SDL resource unit. The SDLs take effect from 1 July 2019. Water resource plans may be accredited before then and have effect until the relevant time