Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:schedule:1:p79
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 79/154)
Character Range: 845967–848869

is wholly or partly a State Action in respect of which salinity credits or debits will be attributed to the Collective Account—the Contracting Government determined by the Committee in accordance with paragraph 21A(3)(a).
       (4) If the Accountable Action is the delivery of Basin Plan Water, a Contracting Government that has information in its possession that may assist the Authority accurately to assess the salinity impacts of the Accountable Action must, if requested in writing by the Authority, give the information to the Authority.

    20. Estimating Salinity Credits and Salinity Debits
       (1) Subject to subclause 20(2), after the Authority has estimated the salinity impacts of an action which the Authority considers may be an Accountable Action under clause 19, it must:
(a) estimate the prospective salinity credits or salinity debits arising from that action; and
(b) designate, in accordance with any BSM procedures, that action to be in whole or in part either or both of the following:
              (i) a Joint work or measure;
              (ii) a State Action; and

    Note—Paragraph 20(1)(b) does not empower the Authority to authorise a Joint work or measure or a State Action.

(c) determine whether the prospective salinity credits or salinity debits will be entered in Register A or Register B; and
(d) enter the action in the relevant Register.
       (2) If the action is the delivery of Basin Plan Water, the Authority:
(a) must estimate the prospective salinity credits arising from that action; and
(b) must not designate the action to be in whole or in part either or both of the following:
              (i) a Joint work or measure;
              (ii) a State Action; and
(c) must enter the action in Register A.
       (3) Subject to clause 20A, the Authority must make an estimate referred to in paragraph 20(1)(a) or 20(2)(a) in accordance with a relevant method for assessing salinity impacts set out in any BSM procedures.

    20A. Provisional entries in Registers
       (1) This clause applies if the Authority is unable to confidently estimate the salinity impacts of an Accountable Action, or a Delayed salinity impact, in accordance with any relevant method for assessing salinity impacts set out in any BSM procedures.
       (2) The Authority may, in accordance with any reasonable method for assessing salinity effects, make a provisional entry in Register A or Register B of the Authority's estimate of the salinity effects of the Accountable Action or Delayed salinity impact.
       (3) If the Authority makes a provisional entry in a Register in accordance with subclause 20A(2), the Authority must, as soon as practicable:
(a) estimate the salinity credits or salinity debits of the Accountable Action or Delayed salinity impact; and
(b) amend the relevant Register accordingly.
       (4) Each relevant Contracting Government must give to