Water Amendment (Interactions with State Laws) Regulation 2015 (No. 3)

 

Select Legislative Instrument No. 224, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 10 December 2015

Peter Cosgrove

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Barnaby Joyce

Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Water Regulations 2008

1  Name

  This is the Water Amendment (Interactions with State Laws) Regulation 2015 (No. 3).

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table

The day after this instrument is registered.

15 December 2015

2.  Schedule 1, item 1

15 December 2015.

15 December 2015

3.  Schedule 1, item 2

At the same time as the Water Sharing Plan for the Lachlan Regulated River Water Source 2016 (NSW) commences.

However, if the Water Sharing Plan for the Lachlan Regulated River Water Source 2016 (NSW) does not commence, the provisions do not commence at all.

1 July 2016

4.  Schedule 1, item 3

At the same time as the Water Sharing Plan for the Murrumbidgee Regulated River Water Source 2016 (NSW) commences.

However, if the Water Sharing Plan for the Murrumbidgee Regulated River Water Source 2016 (NSW) does not commence, the provisions do not commence at all.

1 July 2016

5.  Schedule 1, item 4

At the same time as the Water Sharing Plan for the New South Wales Murray and Lower Darling Regulated Rivers Water Sources 2016 (NSW) commences.

However, if the Water Sharing Plan for the New South Wales Murray and Lower Darling Regulated Rivers Water Sources 2016 (NSW) does not commence, the provisions do not commence at all.

1 July 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Water Act 2007.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

 

Water Regulations 2008

1  Subregulation 2.02(3)

Omit “31 December 2015”, substitute “31 December 2016”.

2  Clause 1AA of Part 1 of Schedule 5 (table item 4)

Repeal the item, substitute:

 

4

Water Sharing Plan for the Lachlan Regulated River Water Source 2016 (NSW)

Lachlan

The day the State plan commences

30
June 2019

The day the State plan commences

 

3  Clause 1AA of Part 1 of Schedule 5 (table item 8)

Repeal the item, substitute:

 

8

Water Sharing Plan for the Murrumbidgee Regulated River Water Source 2016 (NSW)

Murrumbidgee

The day the State plan commences

30
June 2019

The day the State plan commences

 

4  Clause 1AA of Part 1 of Schedule 5 (table item 10)

Repeal the item, substitute:

 

10

Water Sharing Plan for the New South Wales Murray and Lower Darling Regulated Rivers Water Sources 2016 (NSW)

New South Wales Murray and Lower Darling

The day the State plan commences

30
June 2019

The day the State plan commences