Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760:reg:2:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2 (pt 5/32)
Character Range: 239069–241655

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 referred to in section 64 of the Act.

10.10 Annual determinations of water permitted to be taken
(1) For each SDL resource unit in a water resource plan area, and for each form of take, the water resource plan must set out the method for determining the maximum quantity of water that the plan permits to be taken for consumptive use during a water accounting period.
(2) The method for subsection (1) may include modelling, and must be designed to be applied after the end of the relevant water accounting period, having regard to the water resources available during the period.
(3) The method must:
            (a) account for the matters in subsection 10.12(1); and
            (b) be consistent with the other provisions of the water resource plan.
(4) The plan must also set out a demonstration that the method relates to the SDL of each resource unit in such a way that, if applied over a repeat of the historical climate conditions, it would result in meeting the SDL for the resource unit, including as amended under section 23B of the Act.
Note 1: Under the Basin Plan, the SDL is the same as the long‑term annual diversion limit because the temporary diversion provision for each SDL resource unit is zero. Section 6.04 and Schedules 2 and 4 set out the SDLs for each SDL resource unit.
Note 2: Amendments under section 23B of the Act are made following proposals for adjustment under Chapter 7.
(5) If, as a result of an amendment under section 23B of the Act, the SDL for a surface water SDL resource unit is expressed as a formula that changes with time, the SDL for subsection (4) is taken to be:
            (a) for a water accounting period beginning on or after 1 July 2019—the SDL as it stood on 30 June 2019; and
            (b) for a water accounting period beginning on or after 1 July 2022—the SDL as it stood on 30 June 2022; and
            (c) for a water accounting period beginning on or after 1 July 2024—the SDL as it stood on the day before the beginning of the relevant water accounting period.

10.11 Rules for take, including water allocation rules
(1) A water resource plan must set out rules (including, if applicable, rules for water allocations) that ensure, as far as practicable, that the quantity of water actually taken from each SDL resource unit for consumptive use in a water accounting period that beginning