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(a) it has considered any advice from the Basin Officials Committee and submissions from members of the public; and
            (b) it is satisfied that the proposed adjustments meet the criteria under section 7.17.
(2) The Authority must determine the following as they are expected to be on 31 December 2026:
            (a) the efficiency contributions;
            (b) the supply contributions;
            (c) the additional HEW contributions.
(3) The Authority must:
            (a) determine the adjustments (the overall adjustments) that would be appropriate to:
                (i) reflect:
                   (A) the notified measures, the additional supply measures, the additional efficiency measures and the additional HEW entitlements as determined for subsection (2); and
                   (B) the varying HEW contribution; and
                (ii) comply with the limit on the size of proposed adjustments under subsection 23A(4) of the Act;
            (b) calculate, for each affected unit, the difference between the 2017 SDLs as they would be if adjusted by the overall adjustments, and the current SDLs (the difference for the unit); and
            (c) determine the amounts of the proposed adjustments as:
                (i) an adjustment of the SDL for each affected unit equal to the difference for the unit; and
                (ii) an adjustment of the SDL for the Basin water resources equal to the net effect of the adjustments for all the affected units.
(4) An amendment to give effect to the proposed adjustments must be in the form of an amendment to the Basin Plan that would result in the SDL for each affected unit being expressed as:
            (a) a fixed element; and
            (b) the varying HEW contribution, in the form of a formula as a function of time, either varying continuously or changing at specified times from 31 December 2026 onward.
(5) In this section:
2017 SDL, for a SDL resource unit, means the SDL that applied immediately before the adjustments made as a result of a proposal under section 7.10.
Note: Those adjustments commenced on 13 January 2018.
current SDLs means the SDLs in the Basin Plan as amended by the Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Act 2023.
register means the register maintained under section 7.13.
varying HEW contribution for an SDL resource unit, at any time after 31 December 2026, is the difference between the additional HEW contributions shown on the register as being available for the unit at that time, and the additional HEW contributions determined for paragraph (2)(c).

        Part 4—Adjustments relating to groundwater

7.24 Objective
The objective for this Part is to allow SDLs for groundwater SDL resource units to be adjusted to reflect new or improved information about their groundwater resources.

7.25 Adjustments relating to groundwater
(1) The Authority may propose, under section 23A of the Act, an adjustment of the SDL for a groundwater SDL resource