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in Hume Reservoir.

SCHEDULE G Accounting for south Australia's storage rights
PART 1 – PRELIMINARY

    1. Purposes of Schedule G
The purposes of this Schedule are, in accordance with clause 130 of the Agreement:
(a) to set out rules for giving effect to, and accounting for, South Australia's storage rights under clause 91 of the Agreement; and
(b) to define what constitutes an effect on water availability and an effect on storage access for that clause.

    2. Definitions and Interpretation
       (1) In this Schedule except where inconsistent with the context:
"account" means an account maintained under subclause 20 (1).
"allocation" has the meaning given in Schedule D.
"deferred water" means:
(a) any part of South Australia's entitlement under clause 88 of the Agreement that South Australia stores under clause 91 of the Agreement; and
(b) any allocations South Australia may have acquired for use in South Australia from within an upper State, the delivery of which has been deferred in accordance with this Schedule.
"entitlement" has the meaning given in Schedule D.
"major storage" means any one of the major storages defined by the Agreement.
"Plan" means a Deferred Water Storage and Delivery Plan approved in accordance with clause 7.
"pre‑release" means to release water from a major storage solely for the purpose of creating capacity in the major storage to be used to mitigate downstream flooding.
"re‑regulate" means to control water released from an upstream major storage in a downstream major storage, when the water was released for a purpose other than a planned transfer of water to the downstream major storage.
"substitute" means to alter an account to substitute a volume of water to be shown as being stored in an upstream major storage for an equivalent volume of water previously shown as being stored in a downstream major storage.
"transfer" means to transfer a volume of water held in an upstream major storage to a downstream major storage.
"unused capacity", for a major storage at any time, means the capacity not then used by an upper State, comprising the difference between:
(a) the lesser of:
              (i) the target capacity of the major storage as set out in clause 116 of the Agreement; and
              (ii) if the Authority thinks there is a risk that water may have to be released from that major storage for flood mitigation—the volume of water that the Authority estimates will be held in the major storage when the release occurs; and
(b) the volume in storage and attributed to the upper States at that time.
"upper State" means each of New South Wales and Victoria.
"year" means the 12 months beginning on 1 June.
       (2) Expressions used in this Schedule and in the