Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:schedule:1:p145
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 145/154)
Character Range: 1023397–1026220

the Authority considers appropriate to correct that effect; and
(b) make any adjustment to the accounts determined by the Committee.

    21. Accounting for internal spills
The volume of deferred water in a major storage must not be taken into account when re‑allocating water in the major storage under clause 116 of the Agreement.

    22. Attribution of evaporative losses
       (1) The Authority must calculate and attribute to South Australia any incremental evaporative losses arising from the storage of deferred water in accordance with subclause (2) and any rules made under subclause 130 (12) of the Agreement.
       (2) For subclause (1), the Authority must:
(a) calculate the volume of the total net evaporative loss from all major storages; and
(b) estimate the volume of the total net evaporative loss that would have occurred from all major storages if no water had been stored as deferred water; and
(c) subtract the volume estimated under paragraph (b) from the volume calculated under paragraph (a).

    23. Accounting for deferred water in Menindee Lakes Storage

Deferred water stored for private carry‑over
       (1) Subclauses (2) and (3) apply whenever New South Wales becomes entitled to use water in Menindee Lakes Storage under subclause 95 (1) of the Agreement.
       (2) New South Wales may use for any purpose deferred water stored by South Australia in the Menindee Lakes Storage for the purpose of private carry‑over.
       (3) The Authority must alter the existing volume in the account for deferred water stored for the purpose of private carry‑over in the Menindee Lakes Storage to zero.
       (4) As soon as New South Wales is no longer able to use water under subclause 95 (1) of the Agreement, the Authority must credit the account mentioned in subclause (3) with a volume equivalent to the existing volume mentioned in subclause (3).

Deferred water stored for meeting critical human water needs.
       (5) Whenever New South Wales becomes entitled to use water under subclause 95 (1) of the Agreement, the Authority must:
(a) attribute any credit for deferred water then stored in the Menindee Lakes Storage for the purpose of meeting critical human water needs to the relevant account for Lake Victoria; and
(b) reduce the relevant entry in the account for the Menindee Lakes Storage to zero; and
(c) adjust the accounts maintained for New South Wales under Subdivisions D and E of Division 1 of Part XII of the Agreement accordingly.

Resumption of ability to store deferred water
       (6) At the conclusion of any period mentioned in subclause 95 (1) of the Agreement South Australia may resume storing deferred water in the Menindee Lakes Storage for the purpose of private carry‑over and for meeting critical human water needs.

Calculation of additional dilution flows