Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:schedule:1:p101
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 101/154)
Character Range: 906983–909948

by sub‑clauses 6(1) and (6).
PART III—MATTERS RELATING TO ADMINISTRATION OF THE AGREEMENT

    7. Adjustment of delivery of State entitlements
The Authority must, from time to time, adjust the delivery of State entitlements under Part XII of the Agreement to take into account, and to give effect to, transfers of entitlements and allocations between States, in accordance with Appendix 2.

    8. Adjustment of cap on diversions
       (1) Subject to paragraph 16(7)(a), the Authority must, from time to time, adjust the cap on diversions for each designated river valley to reflect interstate and intervalley transfers of entitlements or allocations under this Schedule, in order to ensure that diversions within the Murray‑Darling Basin do not exceed the total diversions under baseline conditions referred to in Schedule E.
       (2) For the purpose of making any calculation under clause 12 of Schedule E, the relevant annual diversion target for that year must either be increased or reduced, as the case requires, by the volume determined in accordance with Appendix 3.

    10. Accounting for salinity impacts
       (1) An entitlement or allocation can only be transferred under this Schedule if the proposed transfer is consistent with Schedule B.
       (2) Consistently with the law of the relevant State, a licensing authority within that State must attach such conditions to any transfer into or out of that State which the licensing authority considers necessary or desirable to ensure that the State meets its obligations under Schedule B.
       (3) The Authority must attribute salinity credits and debits arising from the dilution effects of interstate transfers of entitlements or allocations to the State of origin and State of destination, in equal shares and in accordance with any protocol made under paragraph 6(1)(b).
       (4) The Authority must attribute salinity credits and debits arising from changes to salt accession attributable to any transfer of entitlements or allocations, or changes to the use of water arising from such transfers, to the State in which the change occurs and in accordance with any protocol made under paragraph 6(1)(b).
PART IV—OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES AND ADMINISTRATION

    11. Delivery of water and valley accounts
       (1) The Authority must ensure that water made available in each valley reflects the transfers of entitlements and allocations made under this Schedule, in accordance with any protocol made under paragraph 6(1)(c).
       (2) The valley accounts maintained under sub‑clause 11(2) of the former Schedule immediately prior to commencement of this Schedule are continued in existence.
       (3) For the purpose of this clause, the Authority must maintain a valley account referred to in sub‑clause (2):
(a) for each tributary in respect of which there are entitlements or allocations which may be traded under this Schedule; and
(b) in accordance with any protocol made under paragraph