Water Act 2007

This clause applies if the Minister gives a direction under section 49AA for the Authority to prepare an amendment of the Basin Plan that is the same in effect as the Basin Plan Amendment Instrument 2017 (No. 1).

For the purposes of (and without limiting) that section, including in the amendment one or more of the following changes does not prevent the amendment from being the same in effect as the Basin Plan Amendment Instrument 2017 (No. 1):

an additional requirement in the definition of re‑allocation adjustment request in section 6.05 (as substituted by the amendment) of the Basin Plan that a request made before that substitution should be expressed to be made in anticipation of that substitution;

an additional requirement in subsection 6.05(13) (as substituted by the amendment) of the Basin Plan that requires the Authority to publish on its website variations to the SDL resource unit shared reduction amounts for SDL resource units in the relevant zones;

a change to section 7.14A (as inserted by the amendment) to reflect that the initial adjustments proposed in 2017 (as required by section 7.10 of the Basin Plan) have already occurred.