Water (Indigenous Values and Uses) Direction 2018

I, DAVID LITTLEPROUD, Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, make the following direction.

Dated 25 June 2018   

DAVID LITTLEPROUD

Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources

Contents

1  Name...................................................1

2  Commencement............................................1

3  Authority................................................1

4  Definitions...............................................1

5  Direction.................................................1

1  Name

  This is the Water (Indigenous Values and Uses) Direction 2018.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 1 July 2018.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 175 of the Water Act 2007.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 4 of the Act, including the following:

(a) Authority;

(b) Basin Plan;

(c) environmental watering;

(d) held environmental water;

(e) Indigenous person;

(f) Murray-Darling Basin.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Water Act 2007.

Indigenous uses has the meaning given by section 10.52 of the Basin Plan.

Indigenous values has the meaning given by section 10.52 of the Basin Plan.

water accounting period has the meaning given by section 3.08 of the Basin Plan.

5  Direction

 (1) For each water accounting period, the Authority must report on how, when planning for environmental watering in the Murray-Darling Basin, holders of held environmental water:

 (a) considered Indigenous values and Indigenous uses; and

  (b) involved Indigenous people.

 (2) The Authority must publish the report prepared for subsection (1) on its website within 6 months after the end of the water accounting period.

 (3) Subsection (1) applies to each water accounting period that commences after the water accounting period ending 30 June 2018.