Water (Accredited Water Resource Plan—Macquarie-Castlereagh) Instrument 2024

I, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, make the following instrument.

Dated     17 June 2024   

Tanya Plibersek

Minister for the Environment and Water

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Accredited water resource plan

1  Name

  This instrument is the Water (Accredited Water Resource Plan—Macquarie-Castlereagh) Instrument 2024.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 63 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)      water resource plan;

(d)      water resource plan area.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Water Act 2007.

5  Accredited water resource plan

(1)    For the purposes of subparagraph 63(5)(b)(i) of the Act, the proposed water resource plan for the Macquarie-Castlereagh water resource plan area specified in subsection (2) is accredited.

(2)    The plan is the document titled Macquarie-Castlereagh Surface Water Resource Plan as in force on the day that this instrument is made, excluding any material identified as not forming part of the plan.

Note 1: The plan could in 2024 be accessed on the Authority website at www.mdba.gov.au.

Note 2: The plan meets the requirements that a water resource plan for a water resource plan area must comply with to be accredited: see table item 11 of subsection 22(1) of the Act and Chapter 10 of the Basin Plan.

Note 3: The accreditation of the plan ceases to have effect in accordance with the Act: see sections 54 and 64.