Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:section:2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2
Character Range: 103761–109259

2                                An identification of the particular areas that are to be water resource plan areas for the purposes of this Act and the periods that are to be the water accounting periods for each of those areas.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         The identification must specify one or more of the following as the water resources to which any water resource plan for the area will apply:
                                 The Basin Plan may also provide that an area is to be a water resource plan area for the purposes of this Act from the time specified in the Basin Plan. The time may be specified as a particular date, as the time when particular conditions are satisfied or particular circumstances start to exist or in any other way. If the Basin Plan includes a provision to this effect, the area is a water resource plan area only from the time specified in the Basin Plan.  (a) all (or a specified part or share) of the surface water in a particular area;
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              (b) all (or a specified part or share) of the ground water beneath a particular area;
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              (c) all (or a specified part) of a particular watercourse, lake or aquifer.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A reference in this Act to the water resources of the water resource plan area is a reference to the water resources identified as the ones to which the water resource plan applies.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The water resource plan areas in a State, and the water accounting periods for those areas, that are identified in the Basin Plan must, as far as possible, be aligned with the areas and accounting periods provided for in or under the State water management law of that State. However, this does not prevent the Basin Plan identifying an area as a water resource plan area if none of that area falls within an area provided for in or under the State water management law of that State.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The surface water of the Googong Dam Area (within the meaning of the Canberra Water Supply (Googong Dam) Act 1974) must be included in a water resource plan area for which the Australian Capital Territory (and not New South Wales) prepares a water resource plan (see section 63A).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Authority must consult a State before the Basin Plan identifies as a water resource plan area an area none of which falls within an area provided for in or under the State water management law of that State.